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| 184. Sunday 19th September 1999 - CGI Security : Better Safe than Sorry | Synopsis:
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for interfacing external programs with the Web servers. In absence of appropriate security measures, CGI scripts can present a variety of security problems to their host. Solutions are suggested by Pankaj Kamthan to minimize these problems, and even eliminate them in certain cases.
Techniques:
CGI, SSI, privileges, security, NOBODY, wrappers, CGIWrap, SBOX, suEXEC, Apache, tainting, Shell, back ticks, pre-built CGI scripts |
| 174. Sunday 18th July 1999 - Creating a Page Counter In Perl | Synopsis:
In this article Jason Nugent describes a counter that can be run as a Server Side Include. Essentially that means writing a Perl script that will run each time the page is loaded and its output will contain a line of text indicating how many people have seen the page.
Techniques:
Counter, Perl, Server Side Include, SSI |
| 172. Sunday 11th July 1999 - Speed Thrills : CGI Please ... and Fast! | Synopsis:
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for interfacing external programs with the Web servers. Under testing conditions, such as computationally-intensive tasks or large number of concurrent users, CGI scripts can degrade in performance. Reasons for this behaviour are pointed out and solutions are suggested by Pankaj Kamthan.
Techniques:
CGI Performance, CGI Optimization, Perl, Tools, I/O Buffering, Reverse DNS Lookups, Non-Parsed Headers, NPH, Client-Side Processing, State Persistence Using Cookies, Coprocessing, mod_perl |
| 171. Sunday 4th July 1999 - CGI Programming Made (Relatively) Easy Using Libraries | Synopsis:
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for external gateway programs to interface with HTTP servers. CGI libraries simplify the task of writing CGI scripts. The use of one widely used CGI library, CGI.pm, is discussed in detail by Pankaj Kamthan.
Techniques:
CGI Libraries, cgi-lib.pl, CGI Lite, CGI :: * Modules, CGI.pm |
| 166. Saturday 12th June 1999 - Server-Side Includes and its Extensions | Synopsis:
Server-side includes (SSI's) extend and introduce implicit dynamism in HTML documents, and can be a useful alternative to CGI's in certain cases. Use of SSI's, and their extensions in the Apache WWW server, XSSI's, are described. Applications SSI's and XSSI's are given. Written by Pankaj Kamthan
Techniques:
Server-Side Includes, SSI, Extended Server-Side Includes, XSSI, Editing, Environment Variables, Directives, config, echo, exec, flastmod, fsize, include, Configuration, Debugging, printenv, set, if, elif, else, endif, Variable Substitution, XBitHack, Applications of XSSI's, Concerns, Performance, Security |
| 164. Monday 31st May 1999 - Random and Recursive Crypting using Salt on Unix and Win32 | Synopsis:
Ha Quach explains how to use the Perl crypt() function to create random and recursive crypted passwords for both Unix and Win32 systems
Techniques:
crypt(), Unix, Win32, Perl, salt keys, passwords, cryption, rand() |
| 130. Saturday 14th November 1998 - Timestamping an HTML Document | Synopsis:
Pankaj Kamthan presents two solutions - one on the client-side, and the other on the server-side - to the problem of including the date of last modification of an HTML document. Limitations of these approaches are also pointed out.
Techniques:
Date & Time stampimg, lastModified, SSI, Server Side Includes, *.shtml, #echo, #include, Client Side JavaScript, JavaScript source files, Perl, finding and renaming files |
| 127. Sunday 8th November 1998 - Deleting Files in Perl | Synopsis:
Wing Lu shows how to delete files using Perl, and provides a simple trick to eanble you to recover files from a trash directory.
Techniques:
Perl, files, create, delete, unlink, link, rename, rmdir, recovering trashed files |
| 124. Sunday 25th October 1998 - Creating a mailing list using Perl | Synopsis:
Jason Nugent shows how to combine a form with a Perl script to enable visitors to leave their email addresses in a file on your server, which can then be used with yet another Perl program to send out a regular newsletter
Techniques:
Perl, CGI-BIN, Forms, email, newsletters, writing and reading files on the server |
| 109. Sunday 9th August 1998 - Reading and Writing to Files on the Server | Synopsis:
This article written by Jason Nugent will discuss the mechanisms most often used in Perl scripts to store data out to the filesystem so it can be used again at a later time. Once your data is in a file on the server, other programs may access it, you can manipulate it, graph it, or do just about anything you want with it.
Techniques:
reading and writing files, file handle, open(), read, write, append, flock(), locking files, die, $!, print, close |
| 099. Saturday 4th July 1998 - Server Side Includes and CGI Security | Synopsis:
Jason Nugent continues the CGI/Perl series of articles - this issue dicusses Server Side Includes and CGI Security
Techniques:
SSI, Server Side Includes, config, include, echo, fsize, flastmod, exec, errmsg, sizefmt, LAST_MODIFIED, DOCUMENT_NAME, DOCUMENT_URI, DATE_LOCAL, SERVER_NAME, cgi, cmd, Apache, .shtml, .shtm, .sht, security, HTTP_REFERER |
| 091. Sunday 7th June 1998 - CGI - Server Side Processing of Form Data | Synopsis:
Written by Jason Nugent. In this article, the detailed steps required to extract the information that is sent to your CGI program is described. The article is fairly Perl intensive, but hopefully the examples will make it easy enough to follow.
Techniques:
CGI, GET, POST, Perl variables, scalars, arrays, Hashes, Associative Arrays, $ENV, QUERY_STRING, REQUEST_METHOD, CONTENT_LENGTH, Regular Expressions, form parser script |
| 078. Saturday 18th April 1998 - The Common Gateway Interface | Synopsis:
Jason Nugent continues with the new series of articles on CGI scripting.
Techniques:
form, action, method, get, post, perl, encoding, print |
| 073. Saturday 4th April 1998 - Introduction to CGI | Synopsis:
Jason Nugent returns this time with the first in a new series of articles on CGI (Common Gateway Interface) Scripts. This article introduces CGI, the benefits, the drawbacks, and the language of choice: Perl.
Techniques:
CGI, Perl |
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