Re: [MacPerl] I'm back! :-)

["Mark F. Murphy" <markm@mail.tyrell.com>]

At 5:22 PM -0800 2/24/98, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>Microsoft already does this. On Win 32 (NT/95) the Internet Explorer
>browser is scriptable with perl embedded in web pages via something
>that ActiveState makes called "PerlScript".

However, it's *very* insecure.  The client perl is the same as server
perl... it has *full* access to the system.  So some embedded perl in an
HTML page can erase files from the client machine, etc.

mark

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