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How often do you use taint mode?

by Arunbear (Prior)
on Dec 01, 2020 at 10:10 UTC ( [id://11124448]=poll: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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More often than not
[bar] 6/2%
Occasionally
[bar] 21/7%
Never
[bar] 48/16%
What is taint mode?
[bar] 219/74%
294 total votes
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Re: How often do you use taint mode?
by thomas895 (Deacon) on Dec 02, 2020 at 06:23 UTC

    I use it mainly out of habit more than anything else. I have a few random CGI scripts on my shared hosting for small personal utilities and it's just habit to start with #!/usr/bin/perl -wT even though I am the only person who will ever use them.

    -Thomas
    "Excuse me for butting in, but I'm interrupt-driven..."
Re: How often do you use taint mode?
by tobyink (Canon) on Dec 02, 2020 at 01:20 UTC

    I don't think I've used it in the last decade or so.

Re: How often do you use taint mode?
by talexb (Chancellor) on Dec 12, 2020 at 19:33 UTC

    Probably used it ages ago for forms that were open to the entire Internet .. the forms I've used more recently are internal, so I get by with placeholders for anything that goes into the database. Recently .. nope.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

Re: How often do you use taint mode?
by swampyankee (Parson) on Dec 19, 2020 at 15:29 UTC

    Since everything I've done was for internal consumption only, and had no access to the Internet or write-access to any databases, there seemed to be no reason to use it.


    Information about American English usage here and here. Floating point issues? Please read this before posting. — emc

Re: How often do you use taint mode?
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jan 01, 2021 at 05:03 UTC

    I tend to start most NN-whatever.t with

    #!perl -T

    This is generally more out of habit than anything else. It occasionally finds some minor security hole that I can plug.

    — Ken

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