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Marty Landman
marty at face2interface.com
Tue Jul 10 08:06:50 CDT 2001
At 08:09 am 7/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
>-Does using cgi provide for security?
Not in and of itself. CGI is 'common gateway interface' and provides for a
method of server side processing in communication with a browser.
>-(and now for the really beginner's question) If I have to use the host's
>cgi bin, does that mean you FTP (something else new for me) to a different
>directory - they are using Bellsouth.
Depends on circumstances. That's one way to go. I'm not sure from your
question though why that's needed. To keep sensitive data safe it needs to
be encrypted at all times that it is web accessible. That means using https
instead of http for the page(s) that collect and display the data. If
you're going to ftp that data elsewhere you'll need to use a secure ftp or
else encrypt before transferring.
hth,
Marty
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