Re: [cgiapp] CGIapp FAQ wiki - nightly emails

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Peter Masiar wrote: Jesse asked me to remove from the CGI app list nightly email about which pages were changed on CGI app FAQ Twiki. Oh, come on. Once the wiki settles down a bit it shouldn't be too noisy. If people got the latest wiki notifications within the first few

Re: [cgiapp] Install problem during testing

2003-07-10 Thread Nathan L. Walls
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Jesse Erlbaum wrote: One other note: You may want to upgrade to Perl 5.6.1. 5.6.0 has some significant bugs which were fixed in the next release. Gustavo: I've found 5.8.0 to run on OS X 10.2 to be a good choice. CGI::Application compiled w/o

Re: [cgiapp] Hiding Params in url

2003-07-10 Thread Nathan L. Walls
[cross-posts removed] On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 02:29 PM, ryan whippo wrote: I have an application that passes params around in the url. We need to hide these for security reasons. We also don't want to have to change a lot of code. Any ideas? Thanks, Ryan Ryan; I imagine you're

Re: [cgiapp] Hiding Params in url

2003-07-10 Thread Brett Sanger
Can you not encrypt the param to make it harder to get the gist of what it does? You can. This only makes affecting your system as easy/hard as figuring out your algorithm. Historically, that's no real protection at all. The user can feed in some values, see what encrypted values come out,

Re: [cgiapp] CGIapp FAQ wiki - nightly emails

2003-07-10 Thread Ron Savage
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:00 -0400, Brett Sanger wrote: Hi Folks I was hoping it will be low-noise reminder about existing Nightly is not low-noise, IMNSHO Agreed. knowledge-base for URL related to CGI app, but of course however, asking Jesse to place it in the sig of the list (where

[cgiapp] Hiding Params in url

2003-07-10 Thread ryan whippo
I have an application that passes params around in the url. We need to hide these for security reasons. We also don't want to have to change a lot of code. Any ideas? Thanks, Ryan - Web Archive:

Re: [cgiapp] Hiding Params in url

2003-07-10 Thread Brett Sanger
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:29:06PM -0500, ryan whippo wrote: I have an application that passes params around in the url. We need to hide these for security reasons. We also don't want to have to change a lot of code. Any ideas? Hiding params doesn't add any level of real security. So long