On Fri, 17 May 1996, Brian Mitchell wrote: > Some www servers also include the 'finger' cgi program, which can be used > in much the same way, ie: > > lynx http://www.cgis.net/cgi-bin/finger\?user@host > > Brian Mitchell brian@saturn.net > > "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell" > - H. Truman > Additionally, this a method often used to get past a firewall configuration where the WWW server is a "trusted host" but the user on the Internet is not. We've removed all the "standard" cgi-bin programs from all our hosted websites for this very reason. -- Robert A. Pickering Jr. Internet Services Manager Cincinnati Bell Telephone pickerin@fuse.net A Rough Whimper of Insanity (Information Superhighway) PGP key ID: 75CAFF7D 1995/05/09 PGP Fingerprint: B1 63 0C 09 D8 2E 5D 69 BB 61 A2 92 22 37 63 C3