Re: security on a html page with perl.

2004-08-24 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jose Alves de Castro wrote: One thing that could be done was to have the page with the form generate the hidden field in a way that only the script could validate it... But that's exactly the problem I'm talking about -- what would that solve? The machinery to do that well w

Re: security on a html page with perl.

2004-08-24 Thread Jose Alves de Castro
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:36, Chris Devers wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jose Alves de Castro wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:22, Chris Devers wrote: > > > >> The obvious way I can think of to do this is to make the download page a > >> script that checks to see that: > >> > >>* mandatory

Re: security on a html page with perl.

2004-08-24 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jose Alves de Castro wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:22, Chris Devers wrote: The obvious way I can think of to do this is to make the download page a script that checks to see that: * mandatory form fields are defined as input for the download script * the referring page

Re: security on a html page with perl.

2004-08-24 Thread Jose Alves de Castro
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:22, Chris Devers wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Joe Echavarria wrote: > > > After a user fill out a form and submit it a perl > > script takes the user to a download page of my > > website. how can i prevent a user from directly > > access the download page using the web

Re: security on a html page with perl.

2004-08-24 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Joe Echavarria wrote: After a user fill out a form and submit it a perl script takes the user to a download page of my website. how can i prevent a user from directly access the download page using the web browser.., for example http://www.mydomain.com/download_page.html, i o