RE: CGI security vs ASP security

["Sarbjit Singh Gill" <ssgill () gilltechnologies com>]

Greetings

ASP is not a language but more of a architecture for server side
processing..

Gill

-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Porup [mailto:jens () cyber com au]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:55 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: CGI security vs ASP security


On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:52:19PM -0400, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> I am looking for some opinions on whether ASP is inherently more
> secure than CGI? Or is it just easier to implement ASP
> securely......and securing CGI takes work and knowledge.......

CGI is a protocol, ASP is a language... ASP is a crap Microsoft product
I wouldn't use to add one and one.... if by CGI you mean Perl, then yes,
Perl is a *good thing*






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