The other options might work better. But another solution would be to
pass a hidden value from the form to the script, which would prevent
people from just hitting the URL directly, though this like the other
methods is easily spoofed as well, considering "hidden" values aren't
really all tha
> -Original Message-
> From: t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ending a script
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> I have now got my script to work off of my html form (thanks
> for all the suggestions, turns out
If you are on a UNIX system, often you can run the script suid, so that it
is running as an authenticated user rather than "nobody" or "httpd". In most
cases, it's a simple matter of:
Step 1: chmod 4711
Step 2: Change the shebang line to #!/usr/bin/perl -U
However, this will only work if the w
I have now got my script to work off of my html form (thanks for all the suggestions,
turns out if
i take out the eq out of the if/then statements, it works), but i have found a rather
bizarre
problem. run against the html form it works fine, BUT, if i just try to run the cgi
script, it
just ke
