[WM] cgi: Blank lines stripped and ?script tries to go above webroot?

[Justin Mason]

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Richard Bradley writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the webmake cgi to get around a rubbish hosting service - their ftp 
> connection is really patchy, but it's fast and easy to edit things in the 
> webmake cgi - thanks!
> 
> I have noticed a couple of niggles (I'm using WebMake 2.3):
> 
> 1) Blank lines can be stripped off the top of entries - this can mess up the 
> text/et formatting as
> 
> | <content ...>
> |
> | My title
> | ---------
> |
> | blah
> | </content>
> 
> gradually turns into
> 
> | <content ...>My Title
> | ---------
> |
> | blah
> | </content>
> 
> which doesn't get interpreted correctly.

I think this is a bug :(  Could you try the latest bleeding-edge
version to see if it's fixed?

> 2) When I build the site, I get one instance of
> 
> "Warning: opendir(./..): Permission denied at [...]/lib/HTML/WebMake/Main.pm 
> line 295"
> 
> and more than 20 instances of
> 
> "Warning: opendir(./..): Permission denied at [...]/lib/HTML/WebMake/Main.pm 
> line 2094"
> 
>  My *guess* is that the script is trying to open a directory above the webroot 
> -- I had a brief look at the lines in question, but couldn't see what was 
> going on.
> 
> It doesn't seem to affect the progam, so I have been ignoring it.

if I recall correctly, this is a side-effect of using one of the perl
modules (Cwd I think), and is harmless.

- --j.
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