From my original question about .htaccess for password protection on a website that wants to do some credit card stuff:

Hey - thanks for the answers. I am using an SSL server, the original website is on a 'regular' (?) server, and there is also some space I'm using on their SSL server. This is the 'secure' area I was referring to. I've now got the script to create a file (didn't actually realize Perl would be able to just do it anyway, regardless of anything in .htaccess) the way I want it to.

This directory with CC information is not quite an online transaction thing like in bigger companies. The script sends an email to the office staff that there is data to download, so they ftp to the /data directory and copy the file to their own PC. Then they delete the file after they are done. Also the script will look for older files and delete them itself, so there's nothing irrelevant hanging around to cause a problem. It's much more low volume, low tech than what you may have been thinking. The fact that the file & it's contents is physically removed from the server within a short timeframe was my suggestion to the boss. Having nothing there most of the time seemed like the best security to me. I just need to be relatively secure for a short time period.

Freddo411 (if I may call you that :) ), you mentioned "keep the CGI code (except a stub) ... outside of the webroot" What did you mean by 'except a stub'? Just a short cgi script to launch the main one, or what?

Thanks muchly everyone!
Michael

In reply to Passing a username/password from HTML to a Perl script by mwhiting

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