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>If anyone has experience of using Pop-11 or a similar language (e.g.
>Common Lisp, Prolog) for CGI scripts and can provide some tips,
>including warnings about possible traps, that I can pass on to these
>students I'll be very grateful.
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Have you checked out the work Steve Knight did at
http://www.avonibp.co.uk/office/scripts/pop/pop.html
which covers the problems of shell scripts, etc.
I would also *strongly* advise reading the CGI section of the WWW Security
FAQ (http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html). Allowing
the general public to add CGI scripts to a public server can open up a
*serious* can of worms if you're not careful :-)
Have fun.
Adrian (adrianh@oneworld.co.uk)
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