[Xitami] Security, Counters, and CGI

[Brad Smith]

Your URL should read:

<IMG SRC="http://www.furtopia.org/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?something.gif">

If it ends in a graphical suffix, that will "trick" web browsers.

Brad Smith
Social Design Technologies



On 10 Apr 2002 at 13:29, WhiteShepherd wrote:

> 
> 
>      Well I got the OS/2 version of Xitami running and have been
>      looking for a good 
> counter.  My decision came down some tight parameters.  I didn't want
> a "counter service" that could track and spam my users or web page
> with their logos.  I looked at Java and Java script.  But Java often
> makes browsers especially running on MS systems unstable.  I didn't
> want to enable #EXEC as I did not want the security hole. What I
> wanted something that was "simple" and self contained cgi (ie a cgi I
> can modify and put in without having to install a lot of other stuff).
>  Finally a cgi that would not count reloads.  
> 
>      To bad I was not able to find a function in Xitami to count web
>      pages. :/  After two 
> days of searching I came across graph counter.  It covered three of
> the 4 "hoped for" functions.  It was simple (needing only 2 edited
> lines in the cgi file), was completely self contained (needed no extra
> installed graphic handlers), and could be launched by a IMG link.  
> 
>      I edited and installed the cgi counter script and it counted just
>      fine launching the 
> script directly from the browser: 
> http://www.furtopia.org/cgi-bin/counter.cgi     However when I place
> the IMG link ( IMG SCR="http://www.furtopia.org/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?0"
> ) into the web page I get a broken link.  The CGI "IS" running when
> the web page is accessed as the count test file does go up.  It just
> displays a broken link for the image.  
> 
>      Any ideas as to what may cause this?  I was beginning to wonder
>      if it was a 
> configuration setting in Xitami I missed or just the script?  If you
> want to look at the cgi I am trying to use I have placed it here:
> http://www.furtopia.org/cgi  if anyone is curious.  
> 
>    WhiteShepherd (Gene Angel)
> 
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