Want a good laugh? Check out the perl script on the bottom of one of ovid.com's Web pages. (no relation, I swear!). To spare you the full agony of this piece of dreck, I will just show you their CGI parsing routine. 
while ( $line = <STDIN> ) 
{ 
print OUT $line; 
chop $line; 
( $name, $value ) = split(/=/,$line,2); 
if ( $name eq "userid" ) 
{ 
$userid = $value; 
next; 
} 
if ( $name eq "password" ) 
{ 
$password = $value; 
next; 
} 
if ( $name eq "originAddress" ) 
{ 
$originIPAddress = $value; 
next; 
} 
if ( $name eq "originPort" ) 
{ 
$originPort = $value; 
next; 
} 
if ( $name eq "targetAddress" ) 
{ 
$targetAddress = $value; 
next; 
} 
if ( $name eq "targetPort" ) 
{ 
$targetPort = $value; 
next; 
} 
# ignore unrecognized things -- don't break on future capabilities 
}

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Gack!! Add to that no strict, no warnings, no taint checking, no testing to verify that file opens were successful. And later in the script, they print to STDOUT. Um, that's the default, boys. And they to call themselves "Ovid".

I'm so embarrassed :)

Cheers,
Ovid

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