[kw-pm] Security Handling

[Shuchit Velkar]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Robert Pike <roberthpike at yahoo.com> wrote:
> When creating a CGI app (in Perl), what procedures and/or modules do you find useful when validating and/or removing
> anything harmful from a query? I'm using the CGI module currently, is there anything additional that can be added that will
> help with security issues and such? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

"Perlsec" section in the Perl documentation should be the starting
point of your research.
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html

Especially the part about "taint" mode.

Also go through  http://oreilly.com/catalog/cgi2/chapter/ch08.html

Shuchit