[Labs-l] Conversion issues

[John]

Why are the variables different on different servers? this is just begging
to cause headaches. Can we please stop murdering poor kittens and ensure
things are uniform between the servers? See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Server-kitty.jpg


On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:

> On 09/01/2013 04:08 PM, John wrote:
> > result = popen(u'whois -h whois.cymru.com <http://whois.cymru.com> " -v
> > -f %s"' % IP).read()
> > should give the whois results however I am getting a zero size response
> > when run from the web, however when ran from term it works fine......
>
> You are relying on the PATH variable for your executable which is, IIRC,
> set to only /bin by apache.  Invoking /usr/bin/whois explicitly will
> remove that dependency and be considerably more secure to boot (there is
> no risk that a path be injected into your script and make it execute the
> wrong binary).
>
> -- Marc
>
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