Security question is can I do some sort of include to include the auth info for the DB server so I do not have that in my main CGI?

I suggest you pick up a good on CGI programming in Perl, like O'Reilly's CGI Progamming with Perl. Any good CGI book will cover building a simple login system. Once you see how it's done adapting it to "include the auth info for the DB server" (whatever that means) shouldn't be hard.

My idea for sanity checking is to load the PTR and A record tables into an array for given domain name and then use Array::Compare to test for the data set in both

I don't know much about your application, but this sounds like a really poor idea. You should find a way to express this check as one or more SQL statements which will let MySQL do the heavy lifting for you. With the proper indexes I'm sure MySQL can beat Array::Compare.

-sam

In reply to Re: DBI & CGI Security by samtregar
in thread DBI & CGI Security by sunadmn

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