Re: WWW Security Hole
roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 15:46:57 -0400
Message-id: <9308121946.AA04994@mchip00.med.nyu.edu>
To: George Phillips <phillips@cs.ubc.ca>
From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Subject: Re: WWW Security Hole
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Status: RO
>The gopher URL will still let you send almost any single line of text
>to any port on any machine, but you have to allow that if you want
>to talk gopher.
I'm not sure I understand the problem. Telnet will let you send a single
line of text to any port on any machine. If if your telnet won't, it's
trivial to do it yourself with a few lines of C code (or perl, I guess)