[ic] (Ajax) Search Form question

Josh Lavin jlavin at endpoint.com
Thu Feb 25 15:16:47 UTC 2016


Quoting Klaatu IC Hack (icgort33 at gmail.com):
> An earlier version of the Strap 3 demo included a perl script that
> performed an Ajax autosuggest lookup as per the Readme:
> 
> Search in top bar includes autosuggest. IC isolated script: sug
> located in cgi-bin/ allows quick suggestions via ajax using direct db
> query, avoiding overhead of IC.

That script has numerous problems including SQL injection. I recommend
it not be used without careful review and corrections.

That's why I removed it from Strap. Besides the fact that it is CGI, not
Interchange.

-- 
Josh Lavin
End Point Corporation



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