Re: CGIs running on Windows

[Joe <joe () blarg net>]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, - Evil wrote:

> open FILE, "$some_user_controllable_input;
>
> is secure on a machine running Windows? At least on machine running *nix
> it would be a big security hole.

Unvalidated user supplied input supplied to an OPEN command is a big security
hole regardless of OS or programming language used. <os bigot=linux>Maybe
you see this more often in Win specific CGIs because Win programmers
are less clueful than *Nix programmers?</os bigot>

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