Yes, I agree totally with Fastolfe. I've seen all to many perl scripts that have been made by freebies that have nasty security holes in them. For example I one day came across a script(newsdesk) that read from a flatfile database and outputed some nicely formatted news list. This is all nice, but the script allow the user to read any file on the system, and even running commands (by adding a | at the end). This kind of thing would not be to hard to notice if you just know a bit perl. But I've seen some sites (to many) actually using this script.

// Martin A

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Procedure for finding/searching for existing code by Martin A
in thread Procedure for finding/searching for existing code by belize

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