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Top Forums Web Development Accessing a Perl CGI script, security issue Post 302339150 by z1dane on Thursday 30th of July 2009 12:49:07 AM
Old 07-30-2009
Accessing a Perl CGI script, security issue

Hi Everybody,

I was wondering if it was possible for someone to gain access to my Perl CGI scripts before they are interpreted by Perl (mod_perl on apache2) i.e. getting a hold of my raw scripts and not the html output?

Let's say I use the DBI module where I have the hostname, user and password stored in my CGI script (currently I store these parameters in another file and the user only has select privileges anyway), is there a way to prevent someone from getting the script as it is (if it is possible)?

Many thanks,

Dave
 

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Template::Plugin::CGI(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Template::Plugin::CGI(3)

NAME
Template::Plugin::CGI - Interface to the CGI module SYNOPSIS
[% USE CGI %] [% CGI.param('parameter') %] [% USE things = CGI %] [% things.param('name') %] # see CGI docs for other methods provided by the CGI object DESCRIPTION
This is a very simple Template Toolkit Plugin interface to the "CGI" module. A "CGI" object will be instantiated via the following directive: [% USE CGI %] "CGI" methods may then be called as follows: [% CGI.header %] [% CGI.param('parameter') %] An alias can be used to provide an alternate name by which the object should be identified. [% USE mycgi = CGI %] [% mycgi.start_form %] [% mycgi.popup_menu({ Name => 'Color' Values => [ 'Green' 'Black' 'Brown' ] }) %] Parenthesised parameters to the "USE" directive will be passed to the plugin constructor: [% USE cgiprm = CGI('uid=abw&name=Andy+Wardley') %] [% cgiprm.param('uid') %] METHODS
In addition to all the methods supported by the "CGI" module, this plugin defines the following. params() This method returns a reference to a hash of all the "CGI" parameters. Any parameters that have multiple values will be returned as lists. [% USE CGI('user=abw&item=foo&item=bar') %] [% CGI.params.user %] # abw [% CGI.params.item.join(', ') %] # foo, bar AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Template::Plugin, CGI perl v5.16.3 2011-12-20 Template::Plugin::CGI(3)
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