May I ask what the function of the || 0 is?

It's deadwood from an earlier version of that statement, where I wanted a file timestamp of 0 if the file didn't exist. I've removed the deadwood.

But fantasizing about possible bugs in unknown software has absolutely nothing at all to do with Perl.

It depends on where you choose to draw the line. I have what amounts to a "straight out of the book" chunk of Perl, and it doesn't work as expected in one case. Now what's unique about that case may be environmental, but the path between a browser and a web server is environment that's common to all Perl CGI scripts. Hence I marked it "Maybe OT". If you disagree, please feel free to consider the post. And "unknown software" is a bit of a stretch. I named the two packages installed. And yes, there may be unknown proxy software involved, but it's a low probability that it's a factor in this problem.

In reply to Re: Re: May be OT: Can ad blockers truncate POST data? by dws
in thread May be OT: Can ad blockers truncate POST data? by dws

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