>BTW, please wrap your paragraphs to max 80 characters, unfortunately many >email clients still can't properly wrap longer lines at display or quote time.
Didn't know that. Sorry. > >> PHP workarounds this problem with the OPEN_BASEDIR directive. I don't know >> how secure this is, but it seems it works > >No it doesn't. As I wrote, a quick google will show this. Trying to limit >access that way without using system user accounts is like playing >whack-a-mole, there'll always be ways around that like in >http://secunia.com/advisories/13023/ . > >All the cheap mass-hosters that I've seen simply have no secure separation >of customers. They pretty much all run their customers' processes with the >same user account, whether it's plain Apache, CGI or PHP. > >> I think that's the reason PHP is so widely spread among shared web hosts > >While some admins may believe in snake oil like open_basedir, there are >other reasons for that. Including the fact that MP is basically useless for >cheap mass-hosters because Perl can't really unload code, which just uses >too much RAM. PHP on the other hand can't cache code out of the box, which >is lame for dedicated servers, but for this kind of scenario is better. Of >course some or many mass-hosters just run PHP in CGI mode, like they do with >plain Perl CGI. > >Also, having a big but limited set of PHP-bundled libraries that everybody >uses is more practical for web hosters than having to install much of CPAN, >or doing CPAN module installs on request. > I agree with all you said. I just want to see MP2 as widely spread as PHP is. ----------------------------------------------------------------- SMS известяване за получено писмо - http://promo.abv.bg/new_sms.html -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
