--- Bob H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob,
What are you trying to accomplish? Perhaps we can help you find a more secure way of
doing this.
> if(scalar(@match)) {
> $file=$match[$#match];
> print "Downloaded file $file\n";
> $ftp->binary();
> $ftp->get($file);
> }
>
> I now want to run the downloaded EXE with some command line switches.
FTP is probably the least secure protocol available. Grabbing a remote executable and
trying to
run it would be a security nightmare. I would suggest that, at the very least, you
switch to a
more secure protocol or have a *local* set of MD5 digests that you can match against
the
downloaded code (that's not perfect, but it's better than nothing). Preferable,
though, would be
outlining the overall problem that you're trying to solve so we can perhaps brainstorm
with you
better methods of approaching this situation.
Cheers,
Ovid
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