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Re: [MacPerl] No Tainting? / Embperl Port?
At 14:47 -0400 2000.10.04, Kevin Hemenway wrote:
> >> a) Why can't I use -T on the shebang in MacPerl? (or,
> >> if I can, what's my problem?
> >
> >Because of how MacPerl executes. It effectively calls "perl yourscript".
> >If you do that in regular Unix perl, you will notice it will complain about
> >the -T being too late, too.
>
>Just to clarify - if I'm writing a CGI script, perl will take the command
>line from the shebang, so the "too late" won't show, correct?
For regular perl? Yes. For MacPerl? No. If you use the "CGI Script -
Taint Check" MacPerl extension to build your CGI Script, then it will do
taint checking. Otherwise, it won't.
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Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/
Open Source Development Network pudge@osdn.com http://osdn.com/
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