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

[Brian Lavender]

My bad, you are correct. You could install a handler that does
it. Apache Modules in PERL and C by Lincoln Stein. Right off
the top of my head, I couldn't tell you, but it shouldn't be
that hard. 

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:28:38PM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> 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:
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > 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.

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Brian Lavender
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