ApacheWeek: Issue 205 30th June 2000 | Linux Today

ApacheWeek: Issue 205 30th June 2000

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 30, 2000

In this issue: Book Review: Administering Apache, In the news,
Featured articles and Ooops.

“MySQL goes open-source
VA Linux and MySQL have joined forces to make MySQL an open-source
technology. The idea is to help accelerate development and use of
the popular database query language – one of the most popular for
Linux. This means MySQL has become available under the GPL allowing
programmers from around the globe to contribute to the development
of the project. MySQL can be integrated easily with Apache, and PHP
provides a perfect interface between the two….”

“Ooops
Thanks to the eagle-eyed readers who spotted the problems with one
of the articles that we featured in last weeks Apache Week (issue
#204). In part two of “Learning Perl/CGI for Apache,” Geeks404 give
a CGI script that displays data passed in from a form. However as
we reported in February, (issue #188), without proper encoding when
displaying entered data, users can embed malicious HTML tags. This
type of attack can be used, for example, to steal users
cookies.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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