[Petal] Various things

Steve Purkis spurkis at mkdoc.com
Wed Jul 9 15:56:44 BST 2003


On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 02:45  pm, Fergal Daly wrote:

>> 5/ Caching involves writing temp files with can be a security problem.
>>
>> I know you can turn the cache off, but... Wouldn't it be better to
>> always do in-memory conversion and avoid potential security risks? 
>> Maybe
>> turn caching on only if the programmer provides a temp directory to
>> write to? How about we use a more formal cache module, such as
>> Cache::Cache?
>
> In principle, using Cache::Cache would be a good idea. I don't know 
> how well
> that module works but seems to have lots of good stuff.

Cache::Cache ++

I'd recommend it.

-Steve



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