On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Tony Bowden wrote: > One solution mooted is that it may be possible, from within Perl, > to reach into the document, and disable any macros. Does anyone know > if this is possible (ideally easy!)? Or have any better ideas? That > preferably don't involve using a Windows machine to do this...
A different approach would be to virus scan the documents and quarantine infected ones. You could try Covalent's anti virus plugin for Apache. It has perl bindings. http://www.covalent.com/products/antivirus/ It's not a pure perl solution but it does come from Doug MacEachern's [1] employers so it has reasonable credentials I guess [2]. Simon. [1] Author of mod_perl for those who didn't know. [2] Although, slightly worryingly, the product page says their latest dat file is dated May 02 2001, which is really way too old. -- "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." - Steven Wright