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[Guidelines for Good CGI and SSI Programming]

Guidelines for Good CGI and SSI Programming

There are a number of sites which carefully describe good CGI and SSI programming practices. Rather than duplicate the work, examine the information at the following sites. Note, if there are problems with your CGI's or SSI's, it will be assumed that you are familiar with this information. Ignorance will not be an excuse.
The World Wide Web Security FAQ

http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/www-security-faq.html

CGI Scripts: http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf4.html
Safe Scripting in Perl: http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf5.html

The CGI security FAQ, maintained by Paul Phillips (paulp@cerf.net), can be found at:

http://www.sunvan.net/support/cgi/safe-cgi.htm

CGI security is also covered by documentation maintained at NCSA:

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/security.html

An excellent all-round introduction to Perl and CGI Scripting, written by Tom Christiansen (tchrist@perl.com) and Shishir Gundavaram (shishir@ora.com) can be found in the Perl CGI FAQ,

http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/FAQs/perl-cgi-faq.html

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<i>November 2000</i>