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Advice on Security , evolution of A perl Application

Hello Dear Experts

I have developed a Web Based Tool in Perl with Oracle as backend . I have used all the cycles of SDLC and now I need to know more about the Security of such kind of application, Evolution .
What I need to know more is what are the special security features that one needs to implement in web based tool and what kinds of tools are used in testing
Thank you
Ronan

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xDamox

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Tintin

Whisker is a good tool for checking cross-site scripting flaws.

http://www.securityfocus.com/tools/727

ronan_40060

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Thanks Tintin and xDamox

Well few more info required. generally what are the difficulties encountered in the Maintenance of such application.

Tintin

By "application" are you referring to your own or the tools?

ronan_40060

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Hello Tintin The application is the one which I developed with Perl and Oracle
its a Web based applicationwhich provides the users the statictics of a an already built tool so I developed the functionalities for the statistics of the existing tool

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Tintin
could you suggest me a good article on Maintenance and security esp of perl Applications ?
Thanks for your valuable time
Ronan

Tintin

Is it a Perl/CGI application?

ronan_40060

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hello Tintin its Perl application with oracle as backend

Tintin

You originally mentioned it was a web based Perl tool, so I naturally assumed it was CGI. How do you access the interface then?