how to send a page and a file at a download script?

2008-09-23 Thread shnaxe
dear readers, i recently finished a small perl-cgi download script that sends files after some checks and logging. i call this script through a link on a static html-page and pass the file-id as a parameter. this all works nice so far, the part where i'm stuck at is that with clicking on the

Re: how to send a page and a file at a download script?

2008-09-23 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
shnaxe wrote: dear readers, i recently finished a small perl-cgi download script that sends files after some checks and logging. i call this script through a link on a static html-page and pass the file-id as a parameter. this all works nice so far, the part where i'm stuck at is that

cgi and ssh

2008-09-23 Thread Dermot Paikkos
Hi, I have a cgi script that needs scp a file from one server to another. Because the script runs under the httpd user, for this to work without prompting for password, I need to do a lot of configuring that I am not sure would be consider good practise. For example: the httpd user's account

Re: cgi and ssh

2008-09-23 Thread David Dorward
Dermot Paikkos wrote: Hi, I have a cgi script that needs scp a file from one server to another. Because the script runs under the httpd user With suEXEC you can run that script (and only that script) under an account you create with otherwise very limited privileges.

Re: how to send a page and a file at a download script?

2008-09-23 Thread Greg Jetter
On Monday 22 September 2008 12:38:21 pm shnaxe wrote: dear readers, i recently finished a small perl-cgi download script that sends files after some checks and logging. i call this script through a link on a static html-page and pass the file-id as a parameter. this all works nice so far,