That's not true. Not publishing a URL can be quite secure.

If the OP doesn't ever publish it somewhere and nests the directory tree 3 or more directories deep with charactor-random directory names no one and no bot will ever find it.

Ie:
somesite.com/234sfsd/zzasdf21/ooiissa221/22234AZa/pwa2r.pl

That obscurity it absolutely security. The OP could go one or two steps further by not having the script run unless a certain param is passed to ie, ie: pwa2r.pl?mode=a23da.

Now there is a level of authentication with an obscure URL. The other step is doing an IP-based security if they have a static IP address. Any one of those tiers of security is not completely secure by itself but if two or more of them are used you have yourself a very secure script without the need of authentication.

In reply to Re^2: Setting up a web-based perl interpeter by Anonymous Monk
in thread Setting up a web-based perl interpeter by sulfericacid

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