Yes! In addition to the many user-friendly programs provided free as part of our
service, DomainNameRegistration.com provides a "safe user CGI" access to its customers.
With it you have the freedom to add any personal touch to your web presentation. The
access is termed safe as our well thought-out implementation not only lets you freely
exercise your creativity, but also prevents the following common problems from occuring.
They are prevalent in the user CGI access setups of many ISPs:
- accessing other users's data
- writing to areas other than the user's own account
- accessing critical system files
- consuming the computing resources of the entire system, and thus hampering other
customers's web presence
DomainNameRegistration.com web servers have the capability to run CGI programs written in Perl
and in UNIX shells (e.g. sh, ksh, and csh), and compiled languages such as C or C++. Among
them Perl is the language of choice as it is currently the dominant language for CGI
programming. Perl code is portable, which means that you can write it once and have it run
on completely different systems with minimal code modifications.
To ensure the privacy of our customers's on line info, the Apache web server software
running on DomainNameRegistration.com server machines has been properly modified such that each
user's CGI programs only have the limited system privileges granted to the user. For
instance, a user's CGI program doesn't have the ability to access critical system files,
to access other users' data, to write to areas other than the user's own account, or to
consume the computing resources of the entire system.
Finally, as a convenience feature, the need to use UNIX file manipulation commands is
minimized. For instance, straightforward FTP upload is all that is needed to set up a user
CGI program. It is not necessary to use the UNIX chmod command to turn on the execution
permission bit of an uploaded program, therefore telnet accesses are not necessary. There
is also no need to name a CGI program with any special extension such as .cgi, exe, or
.pl. Of course, such extensions can still be used if you prefer.
A full explanation for implementation is found in each customer's User's Guide.
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