how safe is Python for CGI?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Jeff Davis <jdavis at empires.org> (JD) writes:

JD> Shouldn't be a problem. Nobody can read your executable scripts unless you 
JD> misconfigure apache. If you tell apache that it's supposed to execute .cgi 
JD> files, or files in your /cgi-bin directory, then it will. 

JD> One thing you should be careful of, however, is that if others have remote 
JD> login ability to your machine, make sure they can't just read the file 
JD> with a text editor.

And other people with CGI scripts may be able to read your scripts from
their code, unless suEXEC is used.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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