Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] wwwboard.pl security + headers

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Olivier Dragon wrote:
>
> Which brings another one. I've noticed, in the scripts I've gone through
> so far, that $emulate_matts_code is set to 1 by default. Don't we want
> to educate users to better security and set this off by default? I mean
> what's the point of advertising security if we by default emulate code
> or features that are insecure?
>

Because one of the prime aims is for people to be replace their existing
programs and the purpose of $emulate_matts_code is to toggle possibly
incompatible features in our code it was felt that it should be on by
default.

/J\
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