On 11/10/05, Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 18:45 +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > > > >>> > >>> > >>Didnt you ever program a TCP/IP application in perl...? ;-) > >> > >>Well, lets say Python, since you can store the compiled binary... > >> > >> > >> > > > >I wrote maybe 1000 lines of perl code in my life... so I can't really > >comments on it. > >Never played with Python. (Though I intend to.) > > > >Never the less, at least to my untrained eye, automatically generating > >code based on network supplied input is like putting a huge sign on > >over-ones-head saying: "I'm an idiot! please screw me". > >At best, a malformed packet will crash the program. (Or the system, > >depending on the target server.) > >At worse, it'll make buffer overflow vulnerabilities look like kid's > >game. > > > Can you spell php...? cgi....? > > > Perl gets compiled into some binary format before execution, and the > code is executed by some VM. Python also lets you save that binary. >
Diego, what cart are you pushing here with mentioning perl/python/php/cgi [1] in this thread? Gabor [1] BTW which one does not belong here? ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
