[PLUG] Ready for website creation tutorials

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 21:43 -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> Perl as CGI might be a good place to start, particularly since you could 
> basically just point the POST from your OOo exported html to it.  Also, 
> before diving into Rails, you might want to look at http://jifty.org/.

I was just talking with someone else about Jifty, who confirmed my
suspicion that it suffers from the same PITA as Jesse Vincent's other
project, RT--it requires 10,000 CPAN modules and will only work with
versions released last week.

> Also note that you can just point the POST from your form at an e-mail 
> address and grade the assignments manually (provided that your students 
> have a mail agent available.)  Along those same lines, a canned cgi 
> mailer (preferably one that isn't exploitable as a spambot (read "not 
> php")) would probably suffice for your needs.

It's not just PHP; I've written adequately non-spambot-friendly mailer
scripts in PHP.  Remember Matt Wright w/Matt's Script Archive?  All icky
Perl, most exploitable in some way or another.  The stupid mistake to
avoid is not taking the recipient from the form, even as a hidden field.
Hard-code it in the script or use a configuration file or something
else, just as long as a remote user cannot tamper with it.

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
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