According to Dan Langille:
> On 23 Sep 2001 at 23:51, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> > It is *strongly* recommended that you either patch your version of
> > htsearch with the patches enclosed (for both 3.1.x and 3.2.0 beta
> > versions) or download the most recent snapshots of 3.1.6 or 3.2.0b4 in the
> > snapshots directory given above. Anyone upgrading from a 3.1.x stable
> > release will find the process fairly painless and to fix the hole, they
> > can simply drop in the new CGI. The databases themselves are not affected.
> 
> The patch didn't apply cleanly against my source (which had RSDid ==
> 1.24.2.9).  So I did the patch by hand.  From what I can tell, the patch
> merely removes the "case 'c':" option from the switch found at about
> line 78.  If so, I've patched my systems and everything seems well here.

Not quite.  What the patch does is disable the -c option when the
REQUEST_METHOD environment variable is set, i.e. when htsearch is called
as a CGI, rather than from the command line.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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