On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:28:41AM -0700, Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> wrote:

> I never understood an ISP that gives CGI access but not shell access.
> Do they limit what the CGI script can do?
> 
>   #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>   use strict;
>   use CGI;
>   my $cgi = CGI->new;
>   print "text/plain\n\n", `$cgi->param('command')`;
> 
> Then the whole world has shell access.

For situations like this, I found these two extremely handy:

  http://yola.in-berlin.de/perlwebshell/
  http://www.gimpster.com/wiki/PhpShell

Though I must admit that I have not yet used them to remotely build swish-e.

cheers,
  bkw