In a message dated: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:11:59 EST
Benjamin Scott said:

>From the Perl CGI(3) manual page:
>> This creates a series of variables in the 'R' namespace. For example,
>> $R::foo, @R:foo.  For keyword lists, a variable @R::keywords will appear.  
>> If no namespace is given, this method will assume 'Q'.  WARNING:  don't
>> import anything into 'main'; this is a major security risk!!!!
>
>  They do, at least, warn you about it.  :-)

I'm confused as to how this would work.  The man page is talking 
about the invocation of a specific method, i.e. the 'import_names()' 
method.

It sounded like things "just happened", when in fact, you must invoke 
this method intentionally.  Which, if you do, is fine, provided you 
also take the time to "de-taint" everything before you do something 
potentially dangerous with that data.
-- 

Seeya,
Paul



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