December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
25h 57m
English
Limiting CGI to special directories gives the sys admin control over what goes into those directories. This is inevitably more secure than nonscript-aliased CGI, but only if users with write access to the directories are trusted or the sys admin is willing to test each new CGI script/program for potential security holes.
Most sites choose this option over the nonscript-aliased CGI approach.
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