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Date:Mon Apr 18 14:24:52 1996 
Subject:Re: WWW CGI scripts using Pop-11 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:960418.04 

> 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.

Many thanks. I was not aware of this. I'll point our students at it.

> 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 :-)

I believe that the issue has been addressed in the environment in which
the students are working.

I presume that in any case one can just run netscape as a general
purpose interface with an html file on one's own machine, as input.

> Adrian (adrianh@oneworld.co.uk)

Thanks.
Aaron