[San-Diego-pm] HTML to Perl

Joel Fentin joel at fentin.com
Thu Jan 12 21:13:15 PST 2006


Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>>"Joel" == Joel Fentin <joel at fentin.com> writes:
> 
> 
> Joel> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
>>>You need a server to run a CGI script.  It's that simple.
> 
> 
> Joel> I don't quite get it. If I shell to DOS and type:
> Joel> perl xxx.pl, I get the desired result.
> 
> That's not a CGI script. Unless it happens to be one, and then
> CGI.pm simulates the actions.
> 
> I'd be very very very very worried if your *browser* would launch an *exe*
> simply by referencing it as a file:// url.  Security be gone!
> 

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