Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl and Hosts

[mjm <mjm@azur-press.com>]

>>> My question, then, is whether any of you more
>>> experienced users have a particular favorite hosting
>>> company (or even a list of favorite hosting companies
>>> who (1) uses Macs to serve pages and (2) allows
>>> customers to use Perl scripts that they write.
>>
>> Well, at the risk of being a traitor, I'm going to suggest that the
>> MacOS is a workstation OS, not a server OS.  If it were me, I would
>> pick an ISP (hosting company) who uses Unix and allows you to install
>> perl CGIs, develop my CGIs using MacPerl on a Mac, and then upload
>> them to the Unix server.  In general, a MacPerl CGI will run without
>> changes on a Unix server.
>
>
>[Posted with the prior knowledge that I create & run MacPerl scripts -
>on a Mac even.  But mostly for Mac-to-Unix server perl development...]
>
>That said -
>I would not allow anyone else to run MacPerl on a Mac I own -
>how would you enforce a security model?
>

Hy,

Chris nandor wrote some months ago that MacPerl is not a secure enought
solution on MacOS.
It's maybe the explanation of a MasOS server not allowing to run MacPerl. I
'm curious to have more info about that MacPerl lack of security . :-)

Will the port of Perl on MasOS X change that ?

MJM


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