[8306] in Perl-Users-Digest
Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 1923 Volume: 8
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Wed Feb 18 06:07:26 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 98 03:00:12 -0800
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Perl-Users Digest Wed, 18 Feb 1998 Volume: 8 Number: 1923
Today's topics:
Re: A Pubilc Apology. <*@qz.to>
Re: HELP ODBC sql stmt failing when using WHERE LIKE <fisherm@tce.com>
Securing Form Input?!?!? <c2@3-g.com>
RE: The Young Man and the Beach <fisherm@tce.com>
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Date: 17 Feb 1998 18:55:41 GMT
From: Eli the Bearded <*@qz.to>
Subject: Re: A Pubilc Apology.
Message-Id: <qz$9802171340@qz.little-neck.ny.us>
In article <6cc3qc$6k7$1@srv38s4u.cas.org>, <lvirden@cas.org> wrote:
> According to Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM>:
> :The problem is that the way to send a copy by email in rn/trn is to
> :stick the email address in the CC: header and the news posting and
> :email copy are thus identical. So you have to annoy the rest of the
> :world with an extraneous comment or the email recipient by omitting
> :it. Could Larry Wall have made a mistake in the design of rn?
Pnews handles that. Fix or replace Pnews. It is just an sh script.
> I haven't had rn around on disk for years, so I can't confirm, I seem to
> recall a) that the Cc feature was added after Larry's influence on
> rn came to an end, b) that Trn strips out the Cc: line of outgoing Usenet
> postings.
a) I don't remember seeing it before trn 3.x so that might be likely.
b) Yes. And the sed script that does that could be modified to do
whatever you want. In fact I believe the more recent versions of
Pnews do do this.
Followups directed to a better forum.
Elijah
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replaced his Pnews long ago
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:18:02 -0500
From: Fisher Mark <fisherm@tce.com>
Subject: Re: HELP ODBC sql stmt failing when using WHERE LIKE
Message-Id: <84C932393B88D111AED30000F84104A711ABD6@indyexch_fddi.indy.tce.com>
>2. Unless there's been an upgrade since last November, MS's ODBC
drivers
>don't support
>wildcards in LIKE. In effect, LIKE is the same as =. If you hear any
>differently, let me know.
This may apply only to MS Access drivers -- but I confess that I am
using Oracle's or Visigenic's ODBC driver with Oracle, which do work OK
with "WHERE LIKE" (my apps _depend_ on "WHERE LIKE"). YMMV...
==========================================================
Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
"Browser Torture Specialist, First Class"
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:52:51 -0500
From: Chad Casselman <c2@3-g.com>
Subject: Securing Form Input?!?!?
Message-Id: <34E9DC83.D24ADAC5@3-g.com>
How do I parse, truncate, or whatever to form input to make sure that it
is secure and not going to erase everything.
Basicallly, how do I check for valid information and not system
commands?
Thanks,
c2
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:04:26 -0500
From: Fisher Mark <fisherm@tce.com>
Subject: RE: The Young Man and the Beach
Message-Id: <84C932393B88D111AED30000F84104A711A4D1@indyexch_fddi.indy.tce.com>
1) I'm glad to see that Tom has decided to come back to the beach.
2) In meatspace, you don't walk up to people and demand things from
them. You ask them politely. The same rule applies in cyberspace.
3) When the things under consideration have some technical/skill quality
to them, it is only polite to try to find out something about that thing
before asking people questions about that thing. Libraries and
bookstores are good places to start...
As for myself, I've made only minor contributions to this group, and I
have been flamed by Tom -- but I was giving bad advice. Fortunately,
Tom was around to counter my bad advice with good advice. Given the
level of heat some people subject Tom to, I think he is generally very
forbearing with people. And:
4) If you want to do some programming, you should either learn to
program, or hire someone to program for you. Somehow, some people have
the idea that they should try to do, for example, CGI programming,
without any idea about programming. Makes as much sense as trying to
bake a cake without first learning the difference between flour and
sugar. I would ask those who read this message who are contemplating a
programming project without any background in programming, to please
start trying to get that background. You will find many people in this
group willing to help you, and help you politely, if you do the polite
thing and try to find out as much information as you reasonably can
before asking questions here. There are a lot of good resources out
there, if you have the time to look them up. And if you don't have that
time, you should hire someone who does -- you will be much more pleased
with the result in the end.
> ==========================================================
> Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
> fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
> "Browser Torture Specialist, First Class"
>
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