newbie needs help on hidden and CGI parameters

2006-03-09 Thread Mary Anderson
Hi all, I have a login screen login.pl which calls another application sampleEntry.pl. The login and password are passed to a multipage Sample Entry program as CGI parameters sampleEntry.pl?login=mylogin&password=mypassword. These two parameters are used in one of the pages to login to

Re: newbie needs help on hidden and CGI parameters

2006-03-09 Thread Sean Davis
You realize that "hidden" fields are not hidden, right? You just have to view the source of the page in which they are embedded and you now know the username and password, and that with every round-trip to the server, this information is sent in plain-text (unless you are using SSL)? I would read