Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables

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Date	Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:45:36 +0100
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:06:31 -0700, Gnarlodious wrote:

> I get a construct like this:
> 
> form=FieldStorage(None, None, [MiniFieldStorage('name1', 'Val1'),
> MiniFieldStorage('name2', 'Val2'), MiniFieldStorage('name3', 'Val3')])
> 
> Now how would I assign every variable name* its value?

Don't do this. It will allow the user to set any variable they wish,
not just the ones you want them to, which is a major security flaw. PHP
had this as a language feature (controlled by the register_globals
directive), and it was rightly decried as a major security flaw.

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CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 02:06 -0700
  Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 02:19 -0700
    Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 10:41 +0100
    Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-17 09:23 -0700
  Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 10:25 +0100
    Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 20:52 -0700
  Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 02:20 -0700
  Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-17 13:45 +0100

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