Matt's Insecure Scripts

Senior WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 150

lol, I have heared that Matt's scripts are soo insecure and buggy they are ruining the reputation of Perl! Well I found a site thats supposed to replace Matt's Scripts Archive (no, the don'y stock the WWWBoard!) at http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2002 7:40 am (22 years, 1 month ago)

I'd like to hear more details on that, especially wwwboard. because my home ISP uses it and there's one failure after another. It's very popular, serving about 5 counties, but the admin insists on using it and says he'll never change. I'd like to set him straight in a friendly way.
And get this--with the paltry 5 mb of space my ISP offers with each account (which I really don't use) when I'm logged into FTP, I can navigate out of my directory, into the main users directory, and beyond, all the way to the /home root directory. Can you believe that? (smalltown ISP for you)
I wouldn't give a rat's ass, except that's my main email account, and wouldn't want a DOS to disable my internet account. I emailed support recently, saying they have a major security hole and should fix it 'cause some bright kid could get in there and mess things up, and a couple days later the wwwboard went down due to what the admin said was "bad html" in a message (who knows what he meant)
OK, enough rambling...

Ken

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2002 3:42 pm (22 years, 1 month ago)

Sounds like your ISP hasnt got a clue....

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 2:27 pm (22 years ago)

Some ISP's just suck.