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Re: CGI question
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Date: 
Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:29:52 GMT
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Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
Java != Javascript.  One is a highly-structured and (IMO) relatively elegant
programming language, the other is a gaping security hole masquerading as
useless browser eye candy.  Aside from Netscape's bone-headed marketing
decision to name one after the other, they have extremely little to do with
each other.

Javascript story: I just came across someone the other day who was mad
because he had to "covert all his equal signs into double-equals so they'd
work with netscape". Hrm. Not exactly confidence-inspiring, that.


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(...) I had a C programming class in college with this woman who was upset that "MOVE TO" and "MULTIPLY BY" weren't part of the C language. The moment she said that, an eerie silence fell over the classroom... The punchline is that two years later, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)  

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(...) Reject it on the server end, and serve the form again with an appropriate error message. If you were using the CGI module (1), return an error if (for example) $cgi->param("Vlogin") returns a blank string. Oh, yeah. And don't rely on (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)  

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