Perl cgi scripts can also be written so as to allow all sorts of security breaches. But good (secure) practices are quite well known and have been so since antiquity. E.g. see Chapter 8: Security in CGI Programming with Perl 2/3 by Guelich, et al 2000.
Perhaps we don't hear much about these security lapses any more because they don't happen much because people know how to avoid them? --henry schaffer >Because it's easy and fashionable. Good old Perl has no luster now >that PHP is here. A lot of the Linux magazines tout PHP with MySQL >close to the second coming. It's 42. > >On 7/5/05, Gregg C Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello from Gregg C Levine >> Is it just me, or are the exact same PHP security risks being >> discussed on the security lists for Slackware? They keep posting newer >> packages with those complaints fixed. Or so it would seem. >> >> And if there are so many such problems surfacing, then why are so many >> sites being created with them? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
