Hi Kurt,
You need to do:
perl -Tc file.cgi
What is happening is that when perl inspects your #! line switches, it sees -T
and tries to put on taint mode, but it is too late to taint things by that
time. This is the explination in perldiag:
Too late for """"-T"""" option
(X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script
contains the -T option, but Perl was not invoked with
-T in its command line. This is an error because, by
the time Perl discovers a -T in a script, it's too
late to properly taint everything from the
environment. So Perl gives up.
If the Perl script is being executed as a command
using the #! mechanism (or its local equivalent),
this error can usually be fixed by editing the #! line
so that the -T option is a part of Perl's first
argument: e.g. change perl -n -T to perl -T -n.
If the Perl script is being executed as perl
scriptname, then the -T option must appear on the
command line: perl -T scriptname.
Cheers,
Kevin
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 01:21:27PM -0400, Kurt Edmiston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
spew-ed forth:
> Hi, I'm trying to use taint mode on one of my cgi programs using the -T flag.
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
>
> When I check the syntax with "perl -c file.cgi" I get the following message:
>
> Too late for "-T" option at manager.cgi line 1.
>
> It smells like an error message, but it doesn't seem to affect the
> execution of the program one bit. Any ideas what's going on here?
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt
>
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