Hi
Servers hosted using CPanel hosting systems can work around this, if I
am not mistaken. The server accesses files from a folder called
public_html within the "home" folder of the user. And the FTP access to
the user is at the home folder level and not directly into the
public_html folder. So we can always place the rebol executable in the
home folder, away from direct access from a browser. This is what I
would do:

The files of the server are hosted at: /home/abc/public_html
I get access to /home/abc/
I create a folder say reb
/home/abc/reb
Then I place rebol executable there
In at the top of cgi files, I give the following

#!/home/abc/reb/rebol -cs
Rebol [ ]
;....etc

Nevertheless, if a hosting company has prohibited binaries, it can still
be illegal. The execution of Rebol may still turn up in some log file
somewhere. (But I am not an expert on this)

Regards
Sabu Francis


>> #!rebol -cs
>>     
>   If the rebol binary is in cgi-bin and let's say cgi-bin is accessable to
>   the outside world as http://www.carlos_domain/cgi-bin,
>   then what happens if someone points there browser to
>   http://www.carlos_domain/cgi-bin/rebol ??
>
>   The result should be that rebol loads, the user gets a server 
>   error and rebol stays resident. And everytime this is repeated,
>   another image of rebol is loaded into memory, potentially
>   releaving the server of all memory.
>
>   I've had ISPs make a similar to me and declined. 
>   Tim
>   
>   


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