When I did a formmail type script I just composed the email into a scalar and did a system of sendmail... Since this thread is on that topic..is this bad form? Or is it something that could be used to accomodate this task? I'm failing to understand somethings I'm sure.

edit: My script only went to a certain set of people, It was for computer lab assistants to start a paper trail of a lab machine's downtime. At the time I didn't think that it was important to build any more security in that script. If I had it to do over I would try and find a better way to do it.

Is there a way to check the source of the CGI request? making sure the request was only called from your page would do the trick if that's possible.

In reply to Re: Re: Formmail with Perl by Grygonos
in thread Formmail with Perl by Anonymous Monk

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