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CGI article on perl.com

pudge on 2002-01-26T10:37:47

davorg writes "perl.com have published my article Finding CGI Scripts. It discusses the problems with the majority of CGI scripts on the web, gives some pointers on how to recognise bad CGI scripts and plugs nms as a source of well-written CGI scripts."

No url links???

solhell on 2002-01-27T02:42:12

Why are ther no links to Matt's Script Archive or the CGI Resource Index. Was it intentional?

Re:No url links???

davorg on 2002-01-27T08:37:04

Pretty much. Why would you want to link to places like that :)

Re:No url links???

solhell on 2002-01-31T11:34:22

Only because their names are referred in the article with no links. As if the athor assumes that these are so well known places that there is no need for a url.

Re:No url links???

davorg on 2002-01-31T14:58:45

Actually the author (that's me) assumed that no sane person would want to go there :)

Re:No url links???

solhell on 2002-02-01T09:49:54

Fair enough :). But I want to comment that cgi resources is not as bad a place as Matt's scripts. There are some decent code there.

Re:No url links???

davorg on 2002-02-01T11:55:24

That's quite possible. But the problem that I have with places like the CGI Resource Index is that they don't apply any kind of quality control on the scritps that they list. Possibly because the people that run the sites don't have the technical knowledge to rate the scripts.

Re:No url links???

solhell on 2002-02-01T16:30:32

Actually Matt is running the CGI resource index (or was). :)

Re:No url links???

bodin on 2002-01-30T08:02:00

Matts scripts are replaced by http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/

I don't know what Matt does for a living knowadays. It can't be secure programming anyway.

Re:No url links???

holyman on 2002-01-31T11:42:30

Are you joking? Of course it was intentional. For years the Perl community has been in what amounts to a holy war, trying to undo the horrible damage done to Perl by Matt's scripts.

Because of him, Perl has the reputation in many circles of being unreadable and insecure.

Just say no to Matt's scripts.

CGI - Google

erikharrison on 2002-02-01T19:36:43

We should Google bomb nms.

If you are not familiar with Google bombing, it is a technique for uping your return on Google by taking advantage of Google's search algorithm.

Encouraging people to link to nms increases the chance nms will hit top ranks on Google, and the other search engines usually search Google anyway. I think it's important that webmasters and young impressionable programmers looking for code to learn on should see nms before anyone else.

Re:CGI - Google

pudge on 2002-02-01T19:43:59

Then maybe you should have linked to nms in your reply!

Re:CGI - Google

erikharrison on 2002-02-04T02:05:28

Drat, foiled again.