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

[Mark K. Kim]

Isn't it the browser that does that?

-Mark

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Brian Lavender wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > I still need to figure out how to get it to work with non-html mime types.
> >
> >
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> >
> > # 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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