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I tend to use CGI::Application to write my stuff. Under the doc root, the CGIs look like this: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
 use lib "/Application_Perl_Modules";
 use History;
 my $webapp = History->new();
 $webapp->run();

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where "History" is in a file History.pm in the directory /Application_Perl_Modules well outside of the docroot. This makes it impossible for the webserver to display the guts of the CGI source code if the .htaccess controls on the CGI directory fail (for example). You can use this trick without using CGI::Application too. Also note this structure allows you to "reuse" code by having many stubs point to the same module, providing an advantage in code maintenence.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Passing a username/password from HTML to a Perl script by freddo411
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