[4176] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: adduser web page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BIS Inc)
Wed Jan 29 10:53:31 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:27:42 -0500
To: Rob Muhlestein <rmuhle@q7.com>
From: BIS Inc <ted@bisinc.com>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
RE:
>
>PUT, until recent implementations involving WYSIWYG editors (i.e.
>Netscape Gold, etc), has not been active in most servers because of the
>obvious security issues associated with allowing a web server to
>overwrite HTML documents with only flat-text password authentication.
>
<FORM METHOD="???" ACTION="????">
Can anyone point me in the right direction for exhaustive information on
the various METHODs and ACTIONs and their security implications and
differences across a variety of browsers? (eg: method="post" action="mailto"
works with some but not others).
Thanks,
Ted Buck
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