RE: HTTP Server's jobs for CGI applications -- MIDRANGE-L

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Brad wrote:
>Cookies make CGI programming in any language easier once you know how to
>write and read them.  URL Munging like amazon's page is just as easy in
any
>CGI language as it is with JSPs or Java Servelets.  But, it also makes it
>easier to get around for the average hacker who doesn't know how to
>manipulate cookie contents.  Saving a page and chaning the URLs is easy to
>do.

Gimme a break!  If someone knows how to hack the URLs on a
web page, you really think they won't know how to hack a
cookie?

I really wasn't going to bother with this thread anymore,
but that comment of yours was your silliest yet!

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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