Re^3: Setting up a web-based perl interpeter

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

If you're using a web server, people will be knocking on your server port within hours. In the 90s you could put a server up and no one tried for weeks, after 2001 it was less then 8 hours and now about 2-4 hours. If you use https with your own certificates, you may have a chance. But, that's a lot of work!

Further, on the "...script run unless a certain param is passed...", that param had better change every few minutes, or you'll find someone harvesting your information. A recent study of victims of on-line theft stated that 95% of them thought they didn't have anything to steal on their PC.

Now add a web server!

Go with security first!

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

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Re^4: Setting up a web-based perl interpeter by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 27, 2011 at 18:37 UTC
No lie. A couple years ago I opened up :80 at home to demo an app that was a web/visit logger/tracker; I expected it to be sleepy for a week, it was filling up with requests to PHP and Windows exploit URIs in an hour.	[reply]