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Date:      Thu, 28 Aug 1997 08:21:10 -0700
From:      Don Wilde <don@PartsNow.com>
To:        spork <spork@super-g.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Server Side Includes
Message-ID:  <34059766.63D0@PartsNow.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827230301.22473A-100000@super-g.inch.com>

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spork wrote:
> 
> You should be careful where you put SSI...
> 
> Especially if you have any pages (such as a guestbook) that allow users to
> "create" html on the fly.  It's rather simple for someone to include an
> SSI directive in their bulletin board post.  That command could do all
> sorts of nasty things, such as rm -rf /, /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm, etc...
> 
> Charles

Sure, and indeed it can. Web programming is always 'programmer beware',
or should that be 'sysadmin beware!'.
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