PHP versus CGI

[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/17/04 4:53 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> Actually, MC CGIs are probably the most secure as they will only run
> scripts that are in the cgi-bin folder with the engine. You can't send
> it a script to run "from the outside", so it will only do what it has
> been preprogrammed to do. Or at least that's my understanding...

Right. The only way it could become insecure is if you specifically 
programmed insecurity into it. For example, a CGI that takes the 
parameters that are passed and "does" them. Anyone who writes something 
like that, though, probably deserves whatever they get. ;)

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