On 5 May 2007, at 17:11, Joe Wilson wrote:
What timings do you get when you run the perl script in my last email?
Your script inevitably was fine. What seems to cause the trouble is something nasty in the pathnames. I've modified my perl script to sanitize them by removing any non-ASCII characters and this makes it all just work. Unfortunately I can't find the offending pathname. It would be interesting to know what went wrong - I'd imagine seriously bad things in strings would make it die. It's possible that it missed a closing quote char and ended up eating a basically infinite string (though I'd expect it to grow much faster than it did in that case, if it grew at all).
So I guess this was basically an SQL injection attack in the form of carefully chosen Unix pathnames :-)
Thanks for the help! --tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
