Re^2: Perl, Permission and Browsers

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Re^3: Perl, Permission and Browsers by ropey (Hermit) on Apr 21, 2005 at 09:29 UTC
Setting to -rwxrwxrwx is not a secure idea, do -rwxr-xr-x which will allow it to be executed not seen.. it does sound that simply put your permissions are not set correctly	[reply]
Re^4: Perl, Permission and Browsers by nimdokk (Vicar) on Apr 21, 2005 at 12:02 UTC
Thats not quite right. If I remember correctly, to make something executable, but not viewable, you would want the permissions as `-rwxr-x--x` [download] That would set the Read/Write/Execute bits on the file for the Owner, the Read/Execute bits for Group (but not Write) and Execute (no Read or Write) for World (i.e. everyone else). But, those are Unix-style permissions, not Windows. You might see the following `-rwxrwxrwx` [download] permissions if you are looking at the file on a Windows machine with FTP (depending on how permissions are set for files on the Windows machine).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Perl, Permission and Browsers by polettix (Vicar) on Apr 21, 2005 at 10:08 UTC
Please post the relevant sections of the two redirections. It seems strange to me that you are able to manage UNIX "-rwxrwxrwx" permissions together with files in a Win32 filesystem like "D:\...\cgi-bin\folder.cgi", so I'd rather taking a look at it. Flavio (perl -e "print(scalar(reverse('ti.xittelop@oivalf')))") Don't fool yourself.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl, Permission and Browsers by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2005 at 12:42 UTC
well, quite frankly this -rwxrwxrwx does not seem to have any impact, I only got that from my ftp-program, I'm aware that the server is on Win NT, but I only have ftp access to it. the first redirection is in intern.htm, the file contains only `<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.lent.ch/intern/cgi-bin/main.cgi">` [download] the second one is in main.cgi and looks like this: `<td> <a href='/../intern/cgi-bin/folder.cgi?intern/$file'> $file </a></td>` so its just a simple html-link, but these don't work with IE. However, if I create a link to a regular html-file (inside the protected folder), this works fine.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Perl, Permission and Browsers by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2005 at 12:41 UTC
well, quite frankly this -rwxrwxrwx does not seem to have any impact, I only got that from my ftp-program, I'm aware that the server is on Win NT, but I only have ftp access to it. the first redirection is in intern.htm, the file contains only `<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.lent.ch/intern/cgi-bin/main.cgi"></META +>` [download] `the second one is in main.cgi and looks like this:<br> <td> <a href='/../intern/cgi-bin/folder.cgi?intern/$file'> $file </a>< +/td>` [download] so its just a simple html-link, but these don't work with IE. However, if I create a link to a regular html-file (inside the protected folder), this works fine.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Perl, Permission and Browsers by polettix (Vicar) on Apr 21, 2005 at 15:46 UTC
The second URL is suspect. Have you tried to remove the first part, like: `<a href='/intern/cgi-bin/folder.cgi?intern/$file'>` [download] This should give you an absolute URL `http://www.lent.ch/intern/cgi-bin/folder.cgi?intern/$file` which I suspect is what you need. Take also into consideration mangling `$file` to escape bad characters that may tamper the final URL. Flavio (perl -e "print(scalar(reverse('ti.xittelop@oivalf')))") Don't fool yourself.	[reply] [d/l] [select]