[5036] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Somewhat off-topic question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M Lynn)
Fri Apr 11 18:29:53 1997
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin M Lynn <klynn@surfsoft.com>
To: hdemel@rbcds.com
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199704102239.WAA00249@hub2.rbcds.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I did this once by setting up a perl cgi to save the stuff to files.. and
then a cron job to process the files that were stored in a directory..
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 hdemel@rbcds.com wrote:
> TO: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>
>
> All -
>
> This is sort of a reverse-security issue of which I hope some of you could
> give me a solution. I'm looking to change a phone-line-based solution to a
> non-encrypted-Internet solution. I suppose it's not really a security
> issue, but I'm using the 'reverse-security' thing as an excuse to tap some
> knowledgable brains for an answer.
>
> Currently, we use a home-grown web-based front end pager-sending program
> which dials up our pager provider via an 800 number and sends pages. The
> paging provider also offers web-based paging via a form page, but they use
> POST as the method to submit to their form, and they don't support GET. If
> they supported GET, I would just put the pager ID and message on the URL and
> connect to their site autonomously. I don't know how to do this using POST.
>
> My guess is I'd have to set variables like REQUEST_METHOD and
> CONTENT_LENGTH, and somehow open a socket and send STDIN to them, or
> something. There's where I get confused; I don't know how to do it
> (variable setting and passing and piping STDIN to them).
>
> Any ideas (Perl-based?) would be extremely appreciated.
>
> Thx,
>
> Harris Demel
>
