[columbus.pm] Greetings all you Columbus Perl Mongers

[Charles Day]

Yes, you're going to have security issues with your cookie idea.  You're not
considering how easily your convenient cookie can be exploited.  This is why IE puts
strict rules on cookies per domain.  M$ tried/trying your concept with passport, but
webmasters have to adopt it per website, so it will never become a standard.

Our forum is this email distribution list.  I've used web forums for various
corporate and personal solutions, and they never work well because you're adding a
second layer.  You have to be notified via an email, then log into a webpage, then
post.  Oh wait, what was my login again?

However, you are correct, our website does need something.  A new project perhaps? 
Any ideas anyone?



> Thanks for the quick responses,
>
> John, you're not related to a Bob Hogue who teaches at YSU are you?  He's
> the prof. for my E-commerce class(Perl, PHP, MYSql), sure would be a big
> coincidence to run into two Hogues in Ohio who are involved with Perl!
>
> My sororities?  Like i said, I'm mostly looking to educate myself about
> Perl as much as possible.  I would say my interests lie very much in
> creating Perl scripts for use in Linux/UNIX administration, things alone
> those lines.  I have had an idea about creating a Perl script that will
> store the cookies with all password and username data for any websites I
> use on my USB pen drive, and to automatically send this information to the
> browser whenever the drive is plugged into a computer, and I have surfed to
> one of the pages with cookie information stored.  Obviously, this would
> have the end result of making all of my information completely portable, so
> I could use e-bay, amazon, or whatever else I needed from any computer with
> an internet connection, without needing to remember a thing.  The next step
> would be to make sure this is all done securely...but simply having all of
> this information on a different physical location then your harddrive would
> be a huge advantage security-wise i would think.  No way for you to steal
> my information if its not plugged in :-D
>
> Of course my prof(Dr. Hogue!) has suggested to me that it may flat out be
> impossible to do this using closed-source browsers like IE, and I'll need
> to learn more about cookies...which will be coming in the next 10 weeks or so.
>
> As far as a YSU PM chapter...I've thought about starting up that, or a
> Linux users group here.  My conclusion is that at the moment, I don't feel
> like I know enough myself to really take the point on such a
> group...besides the fact that with 17 credit hours and a part-time job, I'm
> too busy for it.  I was thinking that perhaps by participating in groups
> like yours, and general tinkering I might feel comfortable enough in these
> areas to start a group next fall for whoevers interested.  Don't want to
> form a group and have 6 of us sitting in a room asking each other "so, what
> do we do NOW?"
>
> I have a lot of relatives in Columbus, so I actually do come there fairly
> often.  I'm sure I'll end up making it to one of your meetings sooner or
> later.  Out of curiosity:  why so little content on the website?  Has
> anyone thought of putting a forum up there?  I'm sure all of you have had
> experience installing/running forums like PHPBB, but if the only reason for
> there being one is that noone has felt like it, I would be more then
> willing to give it a shot.  Heck, building a forum might make a good spring
> break project!
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