but i am just trying to write to a file my perl script is creating. i am not allowing a user of the web page to create a file of their choosing. or put their own file in my cgi-bin. so you are saying on a normal website, scripts can't create even temp files?
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 02:07 PM, drieux wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 10:17 , bob ackerman wrote: > >> no one answered. i see the problem, too. >> can't open for write/create a file in a cgi script called from browser. >> i assume because www user doesn't have write permission in cgi-bin? > > if your sys admin allowed your cgi to save files to > the cgi-bin directory by anyone out there - your > site would run out of disk as the skript kiddies > used it to pass pilfered skripts around.... > > > > > ciao > drieux > > --- > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
