Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Heh. Reminds me of my first attempt to use Perl for CGI. I tried to run 
>> it, and it didn't work. After a while I gave up waiting and closed IE. I 
>> did some more poking and prodding of the code before the lead tech came 
>> over and said "hey, you've using up 100% CPU on the webserver".
> 
>   Web servers which are configured properly will automatically kill
> any CGI process which is taking too long to terminate. Apparently
> that one wasn't.

Well, you know, small university web server, 4 technical staff 
supporting the entire IT infrastructure... Scary thing is, it's web 
accessible. [Or was back then anyway.]

One would also expect it to not allow a single session to comsume 100% 
CPU...

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