[thelist] Need help with Perl upload code and password protected directory

MadItalian anthony at baratta.com
Sat Jan 10 22:43:20 CST 2004


At 08:08 PM 1/10/2004, Amy Johnson wrote:
>Did you mean the Perl code ignores the .htaccess file or it doesn't
>ignore it?  My Perl code sure seems to ignore the .htaccess file.  I
>will use a login routine as you suggest.

My typo - Perl will ignore the .htaccess file.


>Shouldn't I be worried though
>about a hacker's Perl script messing around in my password protected
>writeable directory since Perl seems to ignore .htaccess?

Not sure what you mean here. It's only writable via your script, which with 
password protection should be OK (nothing is perfect). It's not like your 
web server will accept blind file uploads to that target directory.



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