Update: 29/06/2008
I've corrected all of the issues posted here. please feel free to make comments on the coding.

i've put the corrected code below. thanks


Update: 26/06/2008
i have realised email validation is another issue on its own. hence, it is taking me slightly longer to correct the mistakes i have made here. so bare with me a little longer.

okay, there are easy ways of validating email address like using Email::Address or Data::Validate::Email module. however on this occasion i've decided not to take the easy road so that i may learn something new.



#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw # ## Thanks to Perl Monk members for their suggestions: # Corion, moritz, runrig and pc88mxer # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as # published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public # License along with this program. If not, see # &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;. # use strict; ## Path set to minimal default $ENV{PATH} = "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin"; use warnings; use subs qw(isHostValid); use CGI qw( :standard ); use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); ## Capture error message BEGIN{ CGI::Carp::set_message(\&carp_error); } ## Path of nslooku. Change this to the path of your nslookup my $NSLOOKUP = '/usr/bin/nslookup'; ## Path of sendmail. change this to the path of your sendmail my $SENDMAIL = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; ## Set your email address here my $RECIP = 'youremail@here.com'; ############################################################ # ACTION HANDLER # ############################################################ # # if($ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} eq 'POST'){ ## Fetch form data input my $name_in = param('name'); my $name = q{}; my $email_in = param('email'); my $email = q{}; my $comments_in = param('comments'); my $comments = q{}; ## Check for html tags in name field if($name_in !~ /<.*>/){ $name_in =~ /(.*)/; $name = $1; }else{ die ("oops! you have html tags. naughty, naughty!"); } ## Check to see if email is valid. ## Does not match email addresses using an IP address instead ## of a domain name. if ($email_in =~ m/\b[a-z0-9._%-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}\b/) +{ $email_in =~ /(.*)/; $email = $1; }else{ die ("oops! your email address is not valid one"); } ## Check for html tags in name field; if($comments_in !~ /<.*>/ ){ $comments_in =~ /(.*)/; $comments = $1; }else{ die ("oops! you have html tags. naughty, naughty!"); } ## Okay! you have passed the tests. now the ultimate test. my @result = split(m/@/, $email); if(!isHostValid($result[1])) { die ("Oops! invalid host name"); } ## Send form data to your email address open (MAIL, "|$SENDMAIL -t"); print MAIL "To: $RECIP\n"; print MAIL "Reply: $email\n"; print MAIL "Subject:email from web form\n"; print MAIL "\n\n"; print MAIL "name: ". $name."\n" ; print MAIL "emial: ".$email."\n" ; print MAIL "comments: ".$comments."\n" ; print MAIL "\n\n"; close (MAIL); ## Display confirmation message print header; print start_html; print "Thanks you for using the comment form. We are going to get back to you as soon as we can say thank you again."; print end_html; }else{ ## Display form print header; print start_html; print start_form(-method => "post", -action => ""); print h4("Contact Form"); print "Name: ", textfield(-name => "name"), br; print "E-mail: ", textfield(-name => "email"), br; print "Enter your comments:", br; print textarea(-name => "comments", -rows => "5", -column => " +50"), br; print submit(-value => "Submit"); print end_form; print end_html; } ## # Subroutine checks if the host is valid # # @param host # sub isHostValid{ my $host = shift; $/=''; open(my $fh, "-|", $NSLOOKUP, "-type=any", $host) or die "unable to exec $NSLOOKUP: $!"; my @response = <$fh>; close $fh; $/='\n'; return 1 if (grep /Name:\s+$host/, @response); return 0; } ## # Subroutine displays error message # # @param error_message # sub carp_error{ my $error_message = shift(); print start_html("Error") . h1("Error") . p("Sorry, the following error has occurred: ") . p(i($error_message)) . end_html; }


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