Is anyone on the list using "formmail" CGI script on their RH Apache implementations?

[Jason Dixon]

On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:50 AM, Marty Landman wrote:

> At 09:59 AM 1/26/2005, Jason Dixon wrote:
>
>> I don't use FormMail.pl.  As best I recall, it has had a history of 
>> security holes.
>
> I believe the major problem is when you specify the recipient on a 
> hidden form field. This makes a script available for hijacking to send 
> spam from; stealing the webmaster's bandwidth and damaging their 
> reputation. Or worse than that...

There are a LOT of problems with Matt's FormMail.pl.  I took a cursory 
glance and was shocked at the lack of localized variables and what-not. 
  And while I can appreciate the all-in-one behavior that made sense in 
1996, most Perl folks like to take advantage of a little thing called 
*modules*.  ;-)

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