Re^2: VB debugging my Perl Scripts on user comp? help! Security issue!

From what my host has listed under my package, the site is hosted on a Linux machine, so (unless I'm mistkane) it shouldn't be an IIS or ActiveState problem, since I thought that ActiveState was strictly a windows version of perl, and IIS was a windows based server application.

The script has been running fine for probably a year now... if not longer. Nobody else has reported this problem, and I can't find any errors in the code nor can I seem to reproduce the error (then again, I don't have VB installed... so that may be why).

I'm assuming my only solution would be to setup a library below the web route, and then use a subroutine in the library to generate the connection to the database for each script? I just don't want to potentially leave my username & PW to my db out in the open (obviously).

Any suggestions?

Thx guys!

Stenyj

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Re^3: VB debugging my Perl Scripts on user comp? help! Security issue! by bmann (Priest) on Jul 05, 2004 at 18:24 UTC
Is the server running front page extensions? If it is, someone would need a username and password to get to it. Other than that, I can think of no reason the server would serve up the source of the script (unless it's a configuration issue.) I'm assuming my only solution would be to setup a library below the web route... Yes, you should store your id & password outside of the web root.	[reply]