Re: Security flaws in recommended CGI setup?

"Jonathan Ellis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.spyce.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:14:06 +0300, "Pauli Virtanen"
<[email protected]> said:
> Apparently, php-cgi works around this by checking whether
> Apache-specific REDIRECT_STATUS is set in environ. In spyce this should
> be equivalent to something like the following:
> 
> def doSpyce( (stdin, stdout, stderr, environ) ):
>   if environ.get('REDIRECT_STATUS', '') != '200':
>     stdout.write("Content-type:
>     text/html\n\n<html><body><h1>Forbidden</h1></body></html>\r\n")
>     return -1
>   path = None
>   if len(sys.argv)<=1 or not os.path.isfile(sys.argv[1]):
>     try: path = findScriptFile(environ['PATH_TRANSLATED'])
>     except: pass
>   result = spyceCmd.spyceMain(cgimode=1, cgiscript=path,
>     stdout=stdout, stdin=stdin, stderr=stderr, environ=environ)
>   return result
> 
> Perhaps it would be nice to also have Spyce behave like this by default?

Sure, if you'd like to submit a patch, I will put it in.

-Jonathan
-- 
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