hiding cgi

[daniel caplan]

sorry if this is in the wrong newsgroup. am not a linux programmer, so am
not sure under what heading to put this under. simply put:

my company has a software that it runs on our internal servers. we would
like to be able to have 3rd party companies run it, not off of our servers,
but off of their own internals network. but obviously we don't want them to
be able to see our source code.

can i ask what solutions there are?

are there compilers? reliable ones? am sure we are not the first to
encounter this scenario, so am sure there is a solution.

many thanks ahead, as always.

sergio

[Luke Matthews]

Have a look at perlcc. Although, the man page for perlcc does say this:

"The code generated in this way is not guaranteed to work. The whole
codegen suite ("perlcc" included) should be considered very
experimental. Use for production purposes is strongly discouraged."

There's also perl2exe. http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm

You could also try a perl source obfuscator or play with some kind of
encryption. That route depends on how much you trust your 3rd parties
not to try to decipher it. Not sure how well perl2exe works either.

--Luke

Post by daniel caplan
sorry if this is in the wrong newsgroup. am not a linux programmer, so am
my company has a software that it runs on our internal servers. we would
like to be able to have 3rd party companies run it, not off of our servers,
but off of their own internals network. but obviously we don't want them to
be able to see our source code.
can i ask what solutions there are?
are there compilers? reliable ones? am sure we are not the first to
encounter this scenario, so am sure there is a solution.
many thanks ahead, as always.
sergio