CGI Perl Security

[Leonard Leblanc <lleblanc@emergeknowledge.com>]

Hello Everyone,

I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to be posting this, but I am 
using Debian and it is a security related question.

We are currently developing a new website with perl that consists of using 
the HTML::Template module.  In the beginning of this script there are 
multiple constants defined which point to the template files using the 
$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT} environment variable.  

Does this present any more/less of a security risk then just hardcoding the 
entire path into the script?

Thanks in advance.

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Leonard Leblanc
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