RE: Hey, that ain't tainted, is it?

2000-01-10 Thread Stas Bekman
> That would be ALL of it wouldn't it? > > Anyway, I'm still not sure how the hello world script violates the use > of tainted data... it just goes to STDOUT (browser). may be because you load some other module which is not taint-clean. Look at this in this way -- lots of people run more compli

Re: infamous mod_perl & mod_ssl together not making...

2000-01-10 Thread Stas Bekman
Well, I build mod_ssl/mod_perl just fine a few days ago (RH6.1). Follow the notes at: http://perl.apache.org/guide/install.html#mod_perl_and_mod_ssl_openssl_ The guide uses xxx for the ver numbers, so to ease on you, here is my copy-n-paste code: unarchive apache_1.3.9.tar.gz, mod_ssl-2.4.9-1.

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Stas Bekman
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Vivek Khera wrote: > > > > > "JB" == Jason Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > JB> Actually, prior art prohibits something from being patented. If > > JB> somebody can demonstrate that the pantented concept is not new due > > JB> to prio

Re: mysql.pm on Apache/mod_perl/perl win98

2000-01-10 Thread Randy Kobes
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Randy Harmon wrote: > [cc list trimmed; this is more a mod_perl issue than a mysql one.] > > Thanks a bunch for your efforts here. I understand that earlier such > bundles were built with VC6, eh? Will you have the > opportunity/ability/tuits to distribute one built with C

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Cliff Rayman
I forgot about Micro$oft and ASP, they could squash a patent like a bug. I tried to look up the patent but the database is only current through Jan 4th.  I will check it out and report back when the actual patent is available. cliff rayman genwax.com Gerald Richter wrote: > I brought it up.  I gu

RE: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Gerald Richter
> I brought it up. I guess I should have been more clear, but I > did it specifically for the authors of embedded perl/tag > packages such as Embperl, ASP, Mason and HTML::Template. > I am not sure if they want to pantent embbedding a programming language in HTML, or just their language (They la

infamous mod_perl & mod_ssl together not making...

2000-01-10 Thread Steven Lembark
found snippet (below) on archive, obviously i'm missing something... after following the notes in ./mod_perl-1.3.1/INSTALL.simple.ssl, ./mod_ssl-2.4.10-1.3.9 and previous suggestions from the mailing list: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/CPAN/build/apache_1.3.9' ===> src

Re: mysql.pm on Apache/mod_perl/perl win98

2000-01-10 Thread Randy Harmon
[cc list trimmed; this is more a mod_perl issue than a mysql one.] Thanks a bunch for your efforts here. I understand that earlier such bundles were built with VC6, eh? Will you have the opportunity/ability/tuits to distribute one built with Cygwin, so that the resultant installation can freely

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Cliff Rayman wrote: > > These patents scare me since the patent granters seem not to understand > software very well - and it seems like it is diametrically opposed > to what the open software movement stands for. > Then come to the United Kingdom, where you can

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Cliff Rayman
I brought it up. I guess I should have been more clear, but I did it specifically for the authors of embedded perl/tag packages such as Embperl, ASP, Mason and HTML::Template. I intended for the authors of the packages to get "up in arms" and send the patent office documentation on prior art so

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Vivek Khera wrote: > > > "JB" == Jason Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JB> Actually, prior art prohibits something from being patented. If > JB> somebody can demonstrate that the pantented concept is not new due > JB> to prior art then the patent office will not issue the patent. > >

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Joshua Chamas
Vivek Khera wrote: > > > "JB" == Jason Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JB> Actually, prior art prohibits something from being patented. If > JB> somebody can demonstrate that the pantented concept is not new due > JB> to prior art then the patent office will not issue the patent. > >

Re: mysql.pm on Apache/mod_perl/perl win98

2000-01-10 Thread Randy Kobes
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Tim Tompkins wrote: > There is a DBD::mysql available from ActiveState. You can install it with > ppm. > > ppm> install DBD-mysql Hi, This would normally work, but the perl binary being used most probably isn't ActiveState's, because as of yet mod_perl doesn't work with

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Jason Bodnar
I think I missed the initial email but I was guessing it was sent due to the fact that there are several embedded scripting languages that use mod_perl. If that's why it was sent then it's very appropriate. Perhaps you should relax. I think a grand total of 4 or 5 emails have been sent on this to

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Vivek Khera
> "JB" == Jason Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JB> Actually, prior art prohibits something from being patented. If JB> somebody can demonstrate that the pantented concept is not new due JB> to prior art then the patent office will not issue the patent. So, to all of you, what does this h

RE: Hey, that ain't tainted, is it?

2000-01-10 Thread John Walker
That would be ALL of it wouldn't it? Anyway, I'm still not sure how the hello world script violates the use of tainted data... it just goes to STDOUT (browser). If I understand this correctly, I've got to run *all* my user input through a regex and use the resultant $1, $2 parts as my data? Wha

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Jason Bodnar
Actually, prior art prohibits something from being patented. If somebody can demonstrate that the pantented concept is not new due to prior art then the patent office will not issue the patent. On 10-Jan-00 Randy Harmon wrote: > > IANAL, but I understand that technologies that were in the public

Re: Hey, that ain't tainted, is it?

2000-01-10 Thread Stas Bekman
% perldoc perlsec -- is what you are looking for. it's all there... > With regard to yesterday's "Cryptic errors -simple Apache::Registry > script ??? (newbie)" post, I have discovered some more information. Not > that it clarifies my understanding of the error much. > > By hacking (process of

Re: Hey, that ain't tainted, is it?

2000-01-10 Thread Vivek Khera
> "JW" == John Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JW> I don't see where the user name is getting execed, evaled, or supplied JW> to a system call. Can anyone explain this to my pea brain? I had one server suddenly, out of nowhere, decide to mark some things as tainted even though they are no

Hey, that ain't tainted, is it?

2000-01-10 Thread John Walker
With regard to yesterday's "Cryptic errors -simple Apache::Registry script ??? (newbie)" post, I have discovered some more information. Not that it clarifies my understanding of the error much. By hacking (process of elimination) I have discovered that when I turn off taint checking in my httpsd

RE: Mason + Apache::Session .. strange problems.

2000-01-10 Thread Ian Mahuron
It turns out that the java applet making another request for a page on the server was causing my cookie to be reset. Moving the file it was requesting out of mason's reach fixed the problem.

RE: Embperl / Variable Scope Question

2000-01-10 Thread Mike Cantrell
Thanks so much for the help. Works great! Regards, Mike Cantrell ADS 888-703-2780 On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: > > Quick question: > > > > Let's say I want to keep a common configuration file which defines > > variables and such. I'd like to [- Execute() -] the file

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Cliff Rayman
docs for the embedded language http://shop1.virtualsellers.com/4xdoc I had not included the original article because it came from individual.com and you have to have an account to access it. I was able to dig up the original source. I am not sure how long this link will be valid for: http://ww

Re: VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Randy Harmon
IANAL, but I understand that technologies that were in the public domain can not be patented. And if a patent is issued, it's not enforcable in that case. Again, IANAL, but I feel that FreeType falls in that same category (see http://www.freetype.org). Randy On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:43:47A

RE: Mason + Apache::Session .. strange problems.

2000-01-10 Thread Ian Mahuron
I've got a few things to add.. I wrapped my tie in an eval so I can see what cookie is being set, etc. It's been a big help for debugging. This has helped me to discover that the scroller applet I'm using makes a query to a text file on the server.. so if I have a page w/ the scroller applet in

RE: Embperl / Variable Scope Question

2000-01-10 Thread Gerald Richter
> Quick question: > > Let's say I want to keep a common configuration file which defines > variables and such. I'd like to [- Execute() -] the file but it seems that > the variables are out of scope once I try to access them in the rest of > the document. > > Am I doing soemthing wrong or is there

VirtualSellers.com TAME patent

2000-01-10 Thread Cliff Rayman
looks like they submitted a patent for an embedded mark-up language. the language can actually be embedded inside an html page (what a concept!). see virtualsellers.com and the TAME language section. patent filing info was on business wire. These patents scare me since the patent granters seem

Re: Mason + Apache::Session .. strange problems.

2000-01-10 Thread Cliff Rayman
Are you using the same domain name throughout your site? How is the path part of the cookie being set and what is it being set to? (sorry i have never used mason). The browser will not send the cookie back if the domain does not match or the path that the page is GETting or POSTing to is not an

Mason + Apache::Session .. strange problems.

2000-01-10 Thread Ian Mahuron
This will be posted to both the mod_perl and mason mailing lists. I'm tearing my hair out here. I'm using Apache::Session with Mason (snippet of calls to Apache::Session below). For some reason, when I hit certain pages with java applets (opencube scroller), and then do a browser "refresh" (IE

RE: Embperl / Variable Scope Question

2000-01-10 Thread Jason Bodnar
At the top of the config file put: package Config; and refer to the vars in your page as: [+ $Config::foo +] On 09-Jan-00 Mike Cantrell wrote: > Quick question: > > Let's say I want to keep a common configuration file which defines > variables and such. I'd like to [- Execute() -] the file bu

Embperl / Variable Scope Question

2000-01-10 Thread Mike Cantrell
Quick question: Let's say I want to keep a common configuration file which defines variables and such. I'd like to [- Execute() -] the file but it seems that the variables are out of scope once I try to access them in the rest of the document. Am I doing soemthing wrong or is there a better way

Re: mysql.pm on Apache/mod_perl/perl win98

2000-01-10 Thread Ed Phillips
Hi Dave, I only do *nix, but I think that you should not need mysql.pm if you are using DBI/DBD. Jochen is quite helpful on the MySQL modules list. subscription info availble at www.mysql.com. Good Luck, Ed

RE: Cryptic errors -simple Apache::Registry script ??? (newbie)

2000-01-10 Thread Eric Cholet
> > Syntax error on line 941 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf: > cannot occur within section > ../src/support/apachectl start: httpd could not be started > > Here is the (only) difference between the failing config and the one > currently on the live server. This is in a section: > > 94

mysql.pm on Apache/mod_perl/perl win98

2000-01-10 Thread dave_dunstan
Hi - I'm another *lost* soul trying to get their Apache 1.3.9, latest mysql, mod_perl working on Win98. I got a binary of Apache+Perl+mod_perl and it seems to work ok - my mod_perl is working ok, my Authz module is -sort of- working, but I'm getting hits in my apache error log from mysql.pm, a la:

RE: Trouble installing mod_perl

2000-01-10 Thread Eric Cholet
> Hi there, > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, gnielson wrote: > > > I am encountering some errors when trying to get an existing Apache > > server to support mod_perl. > > > > I am running Server version Apache/1.2.4 and perl, version > > 5.004_01. Is the fact that I have not yet ungraded to 5.004_04 > >

RE: Cryptic errors -simple Apache::Registry script ??? (newbie)

2000-01-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Eric Cholet wrote: > > Apache 1.3.9 (with mod_perl 1.21/perl5.005_03) doesn't let me use a > > section in a section. > > Really? That's quite odd. What is the error message? Looks like I was wrong about this. Either my memory was playing tricks on me, or it's d

Re: Trouble installing mod_perl

2000-01-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, gnielson wrote: > I am encountering some errors when trying to get an existing Apache > server to support mod_perl. > > I am running Server version Apache/1.2.4 and perl, version > 5.004_01. Is the fact that I have not yet ungraded to 5.004_04 > giving me these prob

Re: Search engines with mod_perl

2000-01-10 Thread Vivek Khera
> "BM" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BM> I'm looking for a simple search engine server to use with mod_perl. BM> Does anyone have experience or recommendations on what works well (or BM> doesn't work well) when developing with mod_perl? Phrase searching, word BM> truncation, wo

RE: Cryptic errors -simple Apache::Registry script ??? (newbie)

2000-01-10 Thread Eric Cholet
> > Hi there, > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, John Walker wrote: > > > This is in a virtual host section, could that be a problem? > > Apache 1.3.9 (with mod_perl 1.21/perl5.005_03) doesn't let me use a > section in a section. Really? That's quite odd. What is the error message? -- Eric

Re: Cryptic errors -simple Apache::Registry script ??? (newbie)

2000-01-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, John Walker wrote: > This is in a virtual host section, could that be a problem? Apache 1.3.9 (with mod_perl 1.21/perl5.005_03) doesn't let me use a section in a section. 73 Ged.

Re: strange error message when reloading a script many times

2000-01-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Alan wrote: > Running a simple test script that does nothing more than print out stock html > and "Test" works fine till I hit reload a few times quickly in succession. Can you mail me your configuration files? 73 Ged.

RE: Logging cookie authentified user as regular authentified users

2000-01-10 Thread Eric Cholet
> ... exccept taht will give you the authenticated user name, as in, the name > entered at the Authentication phase. When I said: $r->connection->user($user), I meant you can use this to _set_ the user, regardless of whether you used an auth handler or not. Sorry for being unclear. $r->connecti

Re: Logging cookie authentified user as regular authentified users

2000-01-10 Thread darren chamberlain
... exccept taht will give you the authenticated user name, as in, the name entered at the Authentication phase. When Nicholas says the authentication is handled at the "script level", I assume that he means that it is handled during the content generation phase. I would write a separate module