Thank you very much for your advice! SSL is indeed necessary, and Catalyst seems to be able to handle this in a nice way.

Or breaking into your box through some kind of injections?

Yes, apart from securing the communication channel via SSL, this is one of my primary concerns -- that there may be, for example, an unsecured SQL statement in one of Catalyst's subclasses that may be used for SQL injection, or some kind of exploit to read local files.

You'll have to keep in mind while working that nothing will do the security checks for you, You'll have to do everything on your own.

ahmad, do you mean that I have to, for example, pre-check input before the Catalyst dispatcher gets its hands on it?

In reply to Re^2: Catalyst or other frameworks in a security critical context by ArgusM
in thread Catalyst or other frameworks in a security critical context by ArgusM

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