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Look at the form. IF has an "action" tag, it calls a script of some sort..
Perl, RPG, etc... doesn't matter.

If you have a *nix or windows server that can run perl, you can set it to
run it there keeping everything on the iSeries "static", but then you'll
have to work with their developers so when the script ends it returns to
your site.



Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 10:03 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] formMail.cgi or alternatives


From Google I see this formMail.cgi is perl script (which I know
nothing about) but I am assuming there is a way to run this
on the iSeries. When I said "dynamic" I meant cgi (like rpg-cgi)
that works with the db2 database...
This other company wants to ftp files of html, plus all the
pictures files,
plus these scripts, and run on the i. User wants a "form-like screen"
to enter a credit app (from anyone). The whole rest of the site is
product advertisement, and company info.
It would seem to me, any "script" language would lack some form of
editing to stop spammers. Apparently there are crawlers looking for this
formMail.cgi to exploit.
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley V. Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] formMail.cgi or alternatives


Don't you love it when you're put in charge and they tie your hands. :)

But, honestly, even if you implemented a CGI application for the email
portion you'd still get some spam. If it's not dynamic, you
may be stuck
either way.

But, it seems as formmail.cgi is CGI anyhow.. so would you
simply point it
to another server that is dynamic to run these formmail scripts?

You could always just do Mailto: hyperlinks. :)

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:33 PM
To: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] formMail.cgi or alternatives


I have a customer's web site where they contracted a rewrite from
an outside
non-iSeries company, but iSeries will still be the server. This
is not a dynamic site-
all advertising, & I've already lost the arguement to make it dynamic.
They want to use formMail.cgi for allowing web user
to fill in some info (credit app) to email to a company rep.
Quick web search indicates this is a spammer's dream come true.
Anyone implemented this?
Any alternatives (net.data?) or something or any way to make
formMail.cgi secure?
I've been told I'm not part of this project, but I am contracted
to manage the Apache
webserver (which means I did a setup years ago, & I keep the
groups & cume updated
a couple times a year).

jim franz

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