Aloha, Simon:
I hope my notes about alternative uses of MC that "transcend" the dominant
browsers/HTML page delivery paradigm made sense.
Your security concerns are no doubt similar to many ISP's/Web Hosting
service administrators. So the issue of distributed Metacard stacks calling
cgi's from within standalones that exist on CD's or on people hard drives is
probably of much broader interest than just your new free account offering.
i.e. (as distinct from calling the MC.cgi from with an HTML page that
resides on the same server.)
Specifically, it could seriously impact my proposal to our own Web Host in
Honolulu, to install Metacard on their servers.
Before taking this to the list serve, I would like to do a test, which
undoubtedly will confirm our suspicions. But we should really be sure with
an actual test.
So, I am going to call my "say_hello.cgi" which resides at your site in my
account, from within a Metacard stack on my computer here on the Island of
Kauai. i.e. this call will NOT be issued from a web page at our domain at
the web host in Honolulu. This of course will emulate a similar scenario if
the CGI were being called from a standalone residing on a distributed CD
that could be running any machine in the world.
So, tell your partner this is happening. I will do this around 5 PM Hawaii
time which should be about 11 PM in Ottawa. Please don't cancel my account.
I will only try this once. I would appreciate your operator telling me who
he sees as the "illegal" referrer in this instance.
I am posting this to the list serve as well in cases there are insights from
those who have already been down this road.
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