https://solutr.com/tags/ajax/ Recent content in Ajax on Solutr.com https://solutr.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://solutr.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.147.9 en Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:10:00 +0100 https://solutr.com/posts/2014-12-30-the-day-perl-became-a-bit-disgusting-or-why-php-got-the-better-cgi-enviroment/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:10:00 +0100 https://solutr.com/posts/2014-12-30-the-day-perl-became-a-bit-disgusting-or-why-php-got-the-better-cgi-enviroment/ <p>I just viewed a <a href="http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292200_-_the_perl_jam_exploiting_a_20_year-old_vulnerability_-_netanel_rubin.html#video">very nice #31c3</a> talk about a well known issue with certain functions within two very widely used perl-modules (DBI &amp; CGI).</p> <p>When I heard the arguments brought to the presenter from the audience within the Q&amp;A, I thought to myself, well, they&rsquo;re right. All of these attack vectors are in theory something that could have been prevented by just flatten arguments (as you always should). Then again, this makes for a really, really messy programming style that does not come easy if you were programming any other programming language prior to perl.<br> Lucky me, I started programming with perl. I think within the third script I used the first own functions and within my fourth script I realised that it is probably best for everyone to start all your functions this way:</p>