There has been several discussions in the past about convincing management that CPAN modules are trustworthy, reliable, etc. Alas, unlike link master tilly, I can't rapidly give you a pointer to these nodes.

As your title so aptly uses, FUD is difficult to overcome, especially engineer to management (vs engineer to engineer). Ovid had a major problem with his boss trying to write everything in house, and introducing a really trashed CGI argument processor.

Possibly, your best argument may be that anything that you (that being either you personally, your team, your department, or your company) can write is going to be far worse than any conceivable perceived holes in CGI.pm.

If you can't use CGI.pm, how is he proposing that you achieve the goal?

--Chris

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