[vox-tech] Need help securing a simple perl CGI

[Brian Lavender]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:16:42PM -0800, Ryan wrote:
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> I have re-writen this script so that it does not take in the file name directly, but instead reads in a number and gets the file name from an external config file.
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> I still need to figure out how to get it to work with non-html mime types.
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> #!/usr/bin/perl
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> # Perl CGI script to decompress gzip'd html files on-the-fly to
> # save disk space on the server. This will likely slow things
> # a bit...

Most web servers do this already. Take a look at the docs on one 
of mine.

http://debian.brie.com/doc/libc6/

See all those gzip'ed files? Click on one, and the web server gunzips
it, figures out the mime type, and then it will send to you.

brian
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Brian Lavender
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