Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Chas. Owens
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 16:09, Bob goolsby wrote: > Morn-n' -- > > You might want to consider a couple of things -- > >   1) "Obfuscation" in an interpreted language can't really be done. > You can make it harder for the User to read you code, but you can't do > anything that makes in hard (or imp

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Bob goolsby
Morn-n' -- You might want to consider a couple of things -- 1) "Obfuscation" in an interpreted language can't really be done. You can make it harder for the User to read you code, but you can't do anything that makes in hard (or impossible) for the User to *run* the code. Source code distribu

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-08-20 03:46 PM, Tobias Eichner wrote: Why do you need any obfuscator? If you want to protect your code from web access, put it in a module in a directory that cannot be access from the web and put a stub that calls the module at the site. It's not as easy as this, since people receive th

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Tobias Eichner
> Why do you need any obfuscator? If you want to protect your code from > web access, put it in a module in a directory that cannot be access from > the web and put a stub that calls the module at the site. It's not as easy as this, since people receive the source code files. I know that obfus

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-08-20 01:32 PM, Tobias Eichner wrote: Hello, I'm in search for a Perl obfuscator; I know there are several commercial products available, but all (at least the one I found) are quite expensive. Maybe you know of a reliable and feature-rich tool that is more affordable or distributed as op

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Chas. Owens
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 13:32, Tobias Eichner wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in search for a Perl obfuscator; I know there are several commercial > products available, but all (at least the one I found) are quite expensive. > > Maybe you know of a reliable and feature-rich tool that is more affordable or

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Uri Guttman
> "TE" == Tobias Eichner writes: TE> I'm in search for a Perl obfuscator; I know there are several TE> commercial products available, but all (at least the one I found) TE> are quite expensive. TE> Maybe you know of a reliable and feature-rich tool that is more TE> affordable or di

Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Tobias Eichner
Hello, I'm in search for a Perl obfuscator; I know there are several commercial products available, but all (at least the one I found) are quite expensive. Maybe you know of a reliable and feature-rich tool that is more affordable or distributed as open source ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: b

Re: perl beginner looking to write very simple blog software; what do I need to know?

2010-08-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 20 August 2010 08:43:11 Matthew Young wrote: > Hi guys. I wrote a post to the Perl subreddit of reddit.com asking > about writing very simple blogging software. Something similar to > this: http://metastatic.org/source/blog/. The original post is here: > http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comme

Re: test contents of variable using alarm()

2010-08-20 Thread Chas. Owens
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:34, Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to use timers to check if certain variables are set and if not > send some data back to a client... > > Been searching for this a while now, but all I can find on alarm are > examples on timing out comman

perl beginner looking to write very simple blog software; what do I need to know?

2010-08-20 Thread Matthew Young
Hi guys. I wrote a post to the Perl subreddit of reddit.com asking about writing very simple blogging software. Something similar to this: http://metastatic.org/source/blog/. The original post is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/d38u2/ask_perl_i_want_to_write_a_minimalist_piece_of/ Any

test contents of variable using alarm()

2010-08-20 Thread Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL
Hi All, I want to use timers to check if certain variables are set and if not send some data back to a client... Been searching for this a while now, but all I can find on alarm are examples on timing out commands So something like: sub timeout { $timeout = 5; eval { l