Re: [Sheflug] Help with Perl/CGI

[Barrie Bremner <baz-sheflug [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:

    Alex> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:52:26PM +0100, Steve Tickle
    Alex> wrote:
    >> #!/usr/bin/perl;
    >> 
    >> my $input;
    >> 
    >> $input = param('input');

    Alex> Should be:

    Alex> #!/usr/bin/perl -w 
    Alex> use strict; 
    Alex> use CGI; 
    Alex> use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

But the general wisdom is to only 

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

in development.

You don't particularly want to tell all the script kiddies why your
script broke.
Ideally your script should be pretty robust, but if something does
happen, you want to make life as hard as possible for the kiddies.

I generally just die, and let Apache put up a nice 500 - Server error
page that looks reasonably presentable, rather than have the error
message on show.

Cheers.

Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner
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