On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Palm Optins wrote:

> I writting a script so when members join my program it writes their
> Email Address into a flat file. I have it adding to the file this way.
>
> open (FILE, ">>$cgiroot/memdata/address/members.txt");
> flock(FILE, 2);
> print FILE "$list\n";
> flock(FILE, 8);
> close (FILE);

One danger I see here -- storing these addresses directly under the CGI
scripts directory.  Could be a serious security hole -- you should store
this stuff outside of your document root (and any directories aliased
under it).

-- Brett




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