In short, I'm using a perl script to set a cookie, and Netscape Navigator
isn't seeing it.
It sets cookies o.k. on a '.com' webserver, but not on my localhost.
I'm running RedHat 7.2 with apache installed.
Viewing http://localhost in Netscape works, as does running scripts at
The reason I was first attracted to this list was because of an article,
announcing its launch (and that of the perl beginners list), in which the
general theme was that for too long, newcomers to Perl had been subjected
to RTFM in response to pleas for help. The lists were being set up to
Graham == Graham Gudgin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Graham I find it disturbing to see these guidelines being ignored by people
Graham who should know better - people who have a lot of respect within the
Graham Perl community. Such messages as (excerpted):
If you had something to say to me, say
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I'm going to have to agree with Randal, here. Maybe I can chime in with a
less acidic tone.
If you don't want people to see your code, don't write it in a scripting
language. Buy a commercial C compiler and write commercial grade code. Perl
is a marvelous language for writing public domain code
I still say that Perl is not the language of choice for hiding code. Why not
package the secret security risk code in a compiled C module of some sort?
Then you can develop the rest of the code in Perl.
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From: Barrie Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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If you must use perl, one thing you might try (although it's not a perfect
solution) is obfuscation. Many people (even those in the open source
community!) have been trying to make it very difficult if not impossible for
people to read their perl code for years. Check out the perlmonks for
At 02:27 PM 1/3/02 -0600, Jeremy Webster wrote:
If you must use perl, one thing you might try (although it's not a perfect
solution) is obfuscation.
Jeremy,
You reminded me of something I once ran into. When setting up the backend
for a website a couple of years ago one of the things the
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Barrie Heck wrote:
We fully respect the conditions of the GPL and in fact have contributed
greatly ourselves towards the development of applications based on perl, as
well as many others. This specific requirement is security related, where a
user with any intelligence,
Hello,
I don't have a working example, this is for a friend.
He says he has a guest book set up on his site. All is fine with it.
People submit their entry, it takes you to a view page (dynamic, from the
Perl program) where it shows you all the entries. But he says when people
refresh that
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