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by jasonjayr 3838 days ago
Consider using the "Not Matt's Script" versions (http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/news.html), but even that was last updated 2004. MSA was notorious for very bad examples of old-style perl, and there are much better ways of doing perl nowadays.

For a much more modern approach, use Plack/PSGI, and one of the many frameworks built using it.
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davorg 3838 days ago
The really galling thing is that Matt's scripts will continue to work find in this post-CGI world. The nms versions were written to the best practices of 2000 and therefore need CGI.pm.
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justinator 3837 days ago
Actually Matt's stuff DOESN'T use CGI.pm (at least what I'm familiar with). That was the thing - even when CGI.pm was the Better Practice, Matt didn't use it.

No one should use Matt's stuff, unless you want huge security exploits.

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davorg 3835 days ago
> Actually Matt's stuff DOESN'T use CGI.pm

Yes. That's the point I was making.

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