putting Image from database in cgi app
Gerhard Häring
gh at ghaering.de
Wed May 21 10:52:12 EDT 2003
Gerhard Häring wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>
>> Gerhard Häring wrote:
>>
>>> In the end, using the temp file is probably the easiest solution, at
>>> least as long as the web technology you use is CGI.
>>
>>
>> and you never have more than one visitor at a time, or don't care
>> if people don't get the right cover...
>
>
> How would that be a problem? Just create a unique name for the temp
> file, put in a directory, like, say "cache/" and have a cron job that
> periodically deletes old temp files.
>
> Are there possible circumstances where that approach would be problematic?
Apart from the obvious DoS vulnerability ;-)
-- Gerhard
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