Apart from the dates on the top of the script, how can you tell it's old,
and why is it bad stuff?
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 July 2001 14:56
To: Sally
Cc: perl
Subject: Re: unix perl to win NT perl
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:13:24AM +0100, Sally wrote:
> I adapted a guestbook from Matt Wright to suit my needs, only it was coded
> to run on a unix server, and I need it to run on a windows NT server. I
> don't have the faintest idea on what I need to change to make it all hunky
> dory, can anyone give me a tip or two please:
Here's a tip: run. Run away from anything looking like this. It's old
and crufty, and wasn't even particularly good when it was new.
Do you understand this code? Do you know whether there are any security
holes? I wouldn't want anything running on one of my machines that
wasn't using strict, warnings and tainting as a minimum.
I suspect you'll get lots of help if you write something using strict,
warnings, tainting and CGI, but probably not with this, although some
particulary generous souls may have the stomach for it.
You may also want to try on beginners-cgi.
Here's another tip: you'll need some way of sending mail on NT. Do you
have this already?
[ Trying very hard to remain polite wrt the code. ]
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