RE: security in perl

2001-10-12 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 02:29 AM 10/12/2001, Curtis Poe wrote: >--- Wagner Garcia Campagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This site doesn't need so much security so I'm not worryed if someone is > > using a sniffer... > >Wagner, > >That is begging for trouble. My apologies in advance for the rather >serious ton

RE: security in perl

2001-10-11 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Wagner Garcia Campagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This site doesn't need so much security so I'm not worryed if someone is > using a sniffer... Wagner, That is begging for trouble. My apologies in advance for the rather serious tone here. Here's a quote from a friend's email: --

RE: security in perl

2001-10-11 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Wagner Garcia Campagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This site doesn't need so much security so I'm not worryed if someone is > using a sniffer... Wagner, That is begging for trouble. My apologies in advance for the rather serious tone here. Here's a quote from a friend's email: --

RE: security in perl

2001-10-11 Thread Wagner Garcia Campagner
o use md5 or sha-1 to solve it. Thank again, Wagner. -Original Message- From: Brent Michalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:22 PM To: Wagner Garcia Campagner Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: security in perl Please forgive the formatting of this message, I a

Re: security in perl

2001-10-11 Thread MARCOS LABORDE
Hi there, I had the same problem...now I'm sending a random valued cookie to the user's browser and to the user table in a database. I compare the value of the cookie in the browser against the value in the database if it matches voila! it's the user. You could use a text file to store the us

Re: security in perl

2001-10-11 Thread Brent Michalski
Please forgive the formatting of this message, I am using Lotus Notes (nuff said)... First off, this is NOT a "Perl security issue". It doesn't matter what language you do this in, the results would be the same... Now, if you want to pass a username and password securely, you'll want to use SS

RE: security in perl

2001-10-11 Thread Grierson, Garry (UK07)
what he needs to do. > -Original Message- > From: fliptop [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:06 PM > To: Grierson, Garry (UK07) > Cc: Wagner Garcia Campagner; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: security in perl > > "

Re: security in perl

2001-10-11 Thread fliptop
"Grierson, Garry (UK07)" wrote: > > I had pretty much exactly the same problem, if you look at the 'Security > Suggestions Please!' thread on the beginners-cgi archive at > http://archive.develooper.com/beginners-cgi%40perl.org/ you can see what > > > -Original Message- > > From: Wagner