When I started using using ActiveState's "PerlScript" add-in for doing ASP pages, I wondered how I could enable taint checking, since there is no command actually present to invoke the perl exe.

I wonder in general, now, how much webwork actually uses taint checking? With CGI scripts, I suppose you can include the argument when you configure what the server does with a perl script. What about other add-ins to make http servers keep perl running and cache scripts? Does anything/anyone use taint checking here?

—John

Update: 93 minutes after I posted this, Ovid posted another top-level message on the same subject which essentially answers my question. To prevent parallel discussions, keep any replies on his thread.

In reply to Web scripts and Taint by John M. Dlugosz

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