[thesite] test.evolt - urls to articles

[Oliver Lineham]

At 16:09 21/11/2000 -0800, you wrote:

>i was referring more to the methodology of breaking up a site into various

yes, i'm fine with fusebox.  i was simply wondering about the lack of the 
"real" cfm filename. which you answered.

>:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>: (aside:   here's an interesting one .. why does
>: http://test.evolt.org/index.cfm/article/view/18/4109/
>:
>:   return all 669 "new" articles? ;)
>:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>that's an easy one.  cause it's not parsing that malformed url you're
>using - nothing interesting about that.  <duck>

except that normally you'd expect a watertight application to recognise 
when its parameters are invalid, and revert to some default (such as an 
error, or the vanilla front page).

with sufficient input checking, it shouldn't ever be possible to trick any 
cgi into doing something unintended.

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