Re: formMail.cgi or alternatives

["Bradley V. Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Look at the form.  IF has an "action" tag, it calls a script of some sort..
Perl, RPG, etc... doesn't matter.

If you have a *nix or windows server that can run perl, you can set it to
run it there keeping everything on the iSeries "static", but then you'll
have to work with their developers so when the script ends it returns to
your site.



Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jim Franz
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 10:03 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] formMail.cgi or alternatives
>
>
> > From Google I see this formMail.cgi is perl script (which I know
> nothing about) but I am assuming there is a way to run this
> on the iSeries. When I said "dynamic" I meant cgi (like rpg-cgi)
> that works with the db2 database...
> This other company wants to ftp files of html, plus all the
> pictures files,
> plus these scripts, and run on the i. User wants a "form-like screen"
> to enter a credit app (from anyone). The whole rest of the site is
> product advertisement, and company info.
> It would seem to me, any "script" language would lack some form of
> editing to stop spammers. Apparently there are crawlers looking for this
> formMail.cgi to exploit.
> jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bradley V. Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 10:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] formMail.cgi or alternatives
>
>
> > Don't you love it when you're put in charge and they tie your hands.  :)
> >
> > But, honestly, even if you implemented a CGI application for the email
> > portion you'd still get some spam.  If it's not dynamic, you
> may be stuck
> > either way.
> >
> > But, it seems as formmail.cgi is CGI anyhow.. so would you
> simply point it
> > to another server that is dynamic to run these formmail scripts?
> >
> > You could always just do Mailto: hyperlinks.  :)
> >
> > Bradley V. Stone
> > BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
> > eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Jim Franz
> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:33 PM
> > To: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [WEB400] formMail.cgi or alternatives
> >
> >
> > I have a customer's web site where they contracted a rewrite from
> > an outside
> > non-iSeries company, but iSeries will still be the server. This
> > is not a dynamic site-
> > all advertising, & I've already lost the arguement to make it dynamic.
> > They want to use formMail.cgi for allowing web user
> > to fill in some info (credit app) to email to a company rep.
> > Quick web search indicates this is a spammer's dream come true.
> > Anyone implemented this?
> > Any alternatives (net.data?) or something or any way to make
> > formMail.cgi secure?
> > I've been told I'm not part of this project, but I am contracted
> > to manage the Apache
> > webserver (which means I did a setup years ago, & I keep the
> > groups & cume updated
> > a couple times a year).
> >
> > jim franz
> >
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