Form mailer

[tyhurst]

I have no idea about how to do something a client of mine wants. He has a consumer profile form that you fill out to do a credit check, which includes a social security number, name, address, employer, ect. How can I make a CGI script take the form contents after completed and email everything to the customers email and my own email and it be secure? Can I just link to the script like "

https://"

and it will be secure with "post="

https://mysite/cgi-bin/script.cgi"

within the form? Thanks for any help...

 

[travs69]

If your sending it though email it's not secure.

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Travis - Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Are Usually Interrupted by Someone Else Doing It; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[KevinADC]

It will be secure to send the form data to the script but it will not make the email secure. You would need to use an encryption key for the email itself to also be secure. Since this is a bit out of my range of experience and is not really a perl issue per se, all I can suggest is looking at some S/MIME modules:

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=smime&mode=all

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[tyhurst]

Is there a way with cgi that when the customer clicks submit that it takes the info that they filled out on the form and shows it on another page to verify and then make changes if needed before submitting? Instead of emailing this secure info, can cgi write this to a database on the server and then I can view what they submitted by viewing the database on the server? Would this be secure? Should this be in a different section on this forum? Which one if so? I am new to all of this. Thanks

 

[max1x]

You should look at the CGI module on CPAN. All your questions are more or less addressed using that module.

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=cgi&mode=module

 

[KevinADC]

I agree with max1x, the CGI module is what you want to look into using if you continue with perl as the scripting language for your cgi scripts.

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!