CGI scripts, security and MySQL

Hi I need to know what is the accepted way of handling the following. I have a MySQL database, and a host of CGI scripts which present forms to the users as web pages, they fill them in and then the data is written to the database. I need to make this secure such that only users I want can use t

Using "#" in the url string

Hi guys Hope someone can help. My file is called lame#19.gpr I am trying to send this to my cgi script, so my url looks like: cgi?filename=lame#19.gpr But of course "#" is a special character for a URL, so my filename parameter gets cut short to lame Does anyone know of a nice, elega