The World Wide Web Security FAQ

Lincoln D. Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu>
Version 1.3.9, June 25, 1997

New: Security holes found in Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0, and Netscape Navigator 3.01. See What's New? for details.

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CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
  2. What's New?
  3. General Questions
  4. Running a Secure Server
  5. Protecting Confidential Documents at Your Site
  6. CGI Scripts
  7. Safe Scripting in Perl
  8. Server Logs and Privacy
  9. Client Side Security
  10. Specific Servers
  11. Bibliography

Lincoln D. Stein
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Last modified: Wed Jun 25 17:58:30 EDT 1997