Thanks! can you explain what does the taint option do?
I usually just use #!/script/perl.exe
Thanks for your help!
eric
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Curtis Poe wrote:
> --- Eric Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can you run CGI on IIS?
> > sorry, I always thought you either need apache or httpd for unix/linux but
> > if IIS can run CGI,it'll be great!
> >
> > eric
>
> Eric,
>
> You can run CGI on IIS, but if you run ActiveState Perl, it will set up IIS to run
>your CGI
> scripts through ISAPI (Internet Server Application Programming Interface) instead of
>as straight
> CGI. ISAPI runs your Perl scripts through the perlis.dll which which has the
>advantage of being
> persistent in memory, thus giving you faster response time, but has the disadvantage
>of not being
> able to pass certain switches to Perl. In particular, you can't pass the -T switch
>and activate
> taint checking. This is a significant security problem. You can read more about
>this at
> http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=82619.
>
> Cheers,
> Curtis Poe
>
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