Re^5: Howto include Perl Script into CGI script

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
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Turns on taint checking.

Have a look at Ovid's CGI Course, lesson 3, Basic CGI Security for a discussion on why and how to use it.

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Re^6: Howto include Perl Script into CGI script by monkfan (Curate) on May 17, 2006 at 15:18 UTC
Hi wfsp, Thanks for the reply. I followed your suggestion. However I received this message. `$ perl -c price.cgi Too late for "-T" option at price.cgi line 1.` [download] What's the meaning of it? Regards, Edward	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Howto include Perl Script into CGI script by Asim (Hermit) on May 17, 2006 at 16:57 UTC
The error/issue usually arises when you trigger Tainting on the top (shebang) line (`#!/usr/bin/perl -wT`), but are running the program/script via the perl interpreter on the command line (as you mention above). If you do, Perl sees that you want to use Tainting from the first line, but because of the way you called it, it can't. So add `-T` to the command line call, as well: `perl -cT price.cgi` See if that doesn't help. ----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.	[reply] [d/l] [select]