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CGI Security

The following Web sites provide some excellent information on making your CGI scripts secure and protecting the integrity of your system.


http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/security.html Provides some quick pointers for writing secure CGI scripts.

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mlvanbie/cgisec/ A tutorial on defensive programming techniques that will prevent the abuse of CGI scripts

http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf4.html - From the W3C's World Wide Web Security FAQ, this is an excellent overview of security and CGI scripts.

http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/matic/cgilist.htm This CGI security course provides many examples in both Perl and C.

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