On Mon, 17 Apr 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote:
> (An early version of a fairly widely-distributed archie-gateway CGI script
> was written in shell. I was able to fabricate a request to this thing
> which would give me an xterm running on the server --- I only used this on
> my own machine, of course, and mainly as incentive to rewrite the version
> of the thing running locally in Perl).
Which reminds me - many of the programs bundled with NCSA's httpd are
atrocious (shell CGI scripts, an old old version of imagemap, etc). I'll
see if I can scrounge together some decent replacements for all those (or
suggestions for removal - in many cases those scripts are serious
security holes).
Brian
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> (An early version of a fairly widely-distributed archie-gateway CGI script
> was written in shell. I was able to fabricate a request to this thing
> which would give me an xterm running on the server --- I only used this on
> my own machine, of course, and mainly as incentive to rewrite the version
> of the thing running locally in Perl).
Which reminds me - many of the programs bundled with NCSA's httpd are
atrocious (shell CGI scripts, an old old version of imagemap, etc). I'll
see if I can scrounge together some decent replacements for all those (or
suggestions for removal - in many cases those scripts are serious
security holes).
Brian
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brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/