On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 12:42, Bill Moseley wrote:
> The swish.cgi script in the 2.1-dev dist runs on Windows last time I
> checked.  It does not require any extra modules loaded from CPAN.

That's what I thought.

> I'm obligated to say that it may not be secure to run on Windows, since the
> query is passed through the shell.  I don't know what that means on
> Windows, but it seems risky.  And from the amount of CERT notices I see I'm
> not sure how safe it is running IIS.

Excellent point.  I'm not sure anything is safe with IIS running in
kernel space...  Particularly anything that uses the shell.

So, I guess that would be "yes it works on Windows" and "running it on
IIS may allow someone to take over the world"

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