Re: cgi coding guidelines

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Struan Donald wrote:

> oip,
> 
> i'm trying to track down some good coding guidelines for doing cgi to
> base internal ones on. the stuff i've found out there seems all a bit
> howto ish rather than "th1ou shalt use strict" which is more what i'm
> looking for, so does anyone have any suggestions*?
> 


Believe everything that I say - thats a start.

strict and -w good

taint good (especially if you have data sinks you dont control)

use CGI good.

Matt Wright bad.

Kick mr blobby in the nuts.

And as someone else said dont mix HTML and program code.

/J\
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