CGI script

Figment · 08-11-2002 12:56pm #1

Hi,
I have a .cgi mail script written in perl that at the moment just outputs 3 lines.

Thank you
Your mail has been sent
<<back

If i try editing it to do anything more complex i get a server error.

I want the thank you page to look like the rest of the site. How can i do that in the script? or can i put code in that will pass the visitor onto a html page of my making?

Any help would be greatly appreciated on this. Im not a programmer so the simplest solution the better.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# mailsend.cgi
# version 970605
# copyright 1997 by bo larsson
# all rights reserved
#
# bugs or feedback to bliss@seagull.net
# for information on how to use, visit http://www.seagull.net/bliss/

$mailer = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";
$valist = "";

# Get the input and strip off all unwanted characters
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
$temp = $buffer;
$temp =~ s/\+/ /g;
$temp =~ s/%([0-9|A-F]{2})/pack(C,hex($1))/eg;

# Store the matching name and value pairs
foreach (split(/&/,$temp))
{
($NAM, $VAL) = split(/=/, $_);
$DATA{$NAM} = $VAL;
$valist .= "$NAM:$VAL\n";
}

# Grab necessary variables
$sendto = $DATA{'sendto'};
$subject = $DATA{'subject'};
$response = $DATA{'response'};
$redirect = $DATA{'redirect'};
$user_email = $DATA{'user_email'};
$user_name = $DATA{'user_name'};

if ($sendto ne "")
{
# Send mail to $recipient
open (MAIL, "|$mailer") || die "Can't open $mailprog!\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
print MAIL "From: $user_email ($user_name)\n";
print MAIL "To: $sendto\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "$valist";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "Remote IP address: $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}\n";
close (MAIL);
if ($redirect ne "")
{
# go to another page
print("location:$redirect\n\n");
}
else
{
# Print the response
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Thank you</TITLE><META http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=contact.html"></HEAD><BODY>\n";
print "Thank You<br>\n";
print "Your Details have been sent.<br>\n";
print "<A HREF=../contact.html>Back</a>\n";
print "</BODY></HTML>\n";
}
}
else
{
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><BODY>Error - sendto variable not declared</BODY></HTML>\n";
}

jd · 08-11-2002 1:02pm

Hi
Are you sure you are not changing the file permissions on the server.?

Post code of a script that
doesn't work
john

Kev · 08-11-2002 1:04pm

there is already code in the script to pass the client on to a page.

it uses a variable called redirect. just define that in the form in the html page.

there should be no reason why you cant change the script though.

Figment · 08-11-2002 3:46pm

Worked a treat Kev.
Thanks all.

Snaga · 08-11-2002 3:56pm

That script looks really old and very easy to exploit. For example its easy to send a POST request to that cgi script and send a spam mail to whoever I want pretending to be whoever I want.

Your best bet is a nice uptodate formail script, get a good one here....

http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

Theres also a faq section and a howto session to help you get it working.

It basically allows you to restrict where you want the mails to be able to go and a few other nice things too.

CGI script

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