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#	$Header: /home/timbo/dbi/lib/DBI/RCS/ProxyServer.pm,v 11.9 2003/05/14 11:08:17 timbo Exp $
# -*- perl -*-
#
#   DBI::ProxyServer - a proxy server for DBI drivers
#
#   Copyright (c) 1997  Jochen Wiedmann
#
#   The DBD::Proxy module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
#   modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. In particular permission
#   is granted to Tim Bunce for distributing this as a part of the DBI.
#
#
#   Author: Jochen Wiedmann
#           Am Eisteich 9
#           72555 Metzingen
#           Germany
#
#           Email: joe@ispsoft.de
#           Phone: +49 7123 14881
#
#
##############################################################################


require 5.004;
use strict;

use RPC::PlServer 0.2001;
# require DBI; # deferred till AcceptVersion() to aid threading
require Config;


package DBI::ProxyServer;



############################################################################
#
#   Constants
#
############################################################################

use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);

$VERSION = "0.3005";
@ISA = qw(RPC::PlServer DBI);


# Most of the options below are set to default values, we note them here
# just for the sake of documentation.
my %DEFAULT_SERVER_OPTIONS;
{
    my $o = \%DEFAULT_SERVER_OPTIONS;
    $o->{'chroot'}     = undef,		# To be used in the initfile,
    					# after loading the required
    					# DBI drivers.
    $o->{'clients'} =
	[ { 'mask' => '.*',
	    'accept' => 1,
	    'cipher' => undef
	    }
	  ];
    $o->{'configfile'} = '/etc/dbiproxy.conf' if -f '/etc/dbiproxy.conf';
    $o->{'debug'}      = 0;
    $o->{'facility'}   = 'daemon';
    $o->{'group'}      = undef;
    $o->{'localaddr'}  = undef;		# Bind to any local IP number
    $o->{'localport'}  = undef;         # Must set port number on the
					# command line.
    $o->{'logfile'}    = undef;         # Use syslog or EventLog.

    # XXX don't restrict methods that can be called (trust users once connected)
    $o->{'XXX_methods'}    = {
	'DBI::ProxyServer' => {
	    'Version' => 1,
	    'NewHandle' => 1,
	    'CallMethod' => 1,
	    'DestroyHandle' => 1
	    },
	'DBI::ProxyServer::db' => {
	    'prepare' => 1,
	    'commit' => 1,
	    'rollback' => 1,
	    'STORE' => 1,
	    'FETCH' => 1,
	    'func' => 1,
	    'quote' => 1,
	    'type_info_all' => 1,
	    'table_info' => 1,
	    'disconnect' => 1,
	    },
	'DBI::ProxyServer::st' => {
	    'execute' => 1,
	    'STORE' => 1,
	    'FETCH' => 1,
	    'func' => 1,
	    'fetch' => 1,
	    'finish' => 1
	    }
    };
    if ($Config::Config{'usethreads'} eq 'define') {
	$o->{'mode'} = 'threads';
    } elsif ($Config::Config{'d_fork'} eq 'define') {
	$o->{'mode'} = 'fork';
    } else {
	$o->{'mode'} = 'single';
    }
    # No pidfile by default, configuration must provide one if needed
    $o->{'pidfile'}    = 'none';
    $o->{'user'}       = undef;
};


############################################################################
#
#   Name:    Version
#
#   Purpose: Return version string
#
#   Inputs:  $class - This class
#
#   Result:  Version string; suitable for printing by "--version"
#
############################################################################

sub Version {
    my $version = $DBI::ProxyServer::VERSION;
    "DBI::ProxyServer $version, Copyright (C) 1998, Jochen Wiedmann";
}


############################################################################
#
#   Name:    AcceptApplication
#
#   Purpose: Verify DBI DSN
#
#   Inputs:  $self - This instance
#            $dsn - DBI dsn
#
#   Returns: TRUE for a valid DSN, FALSE otherwise
#
############################################################################

sub AcceptApplication {
    my $self = shift; my $dsn = shift;
    $dsn =~ /^dbi:\w+:/i;
}


############################################################################
#
#   Name:    AcceptVersion
#
#   Purpose: Verify requested DBI version
#
#   Inputs:  $self - Instance
#            $version - DBI version being requested
#
#   Returns: TRUE for ok, FALSE otherwise
#
############################################################################

sub AcceptVersion {
    my $self = shift; my $version = shift;
    require DBI;
    DBI::ProxyServer->init_rootclass();
    $DBI::VERSION >= $version;
}


############################################################################
#
#   Name:    AcceptUser
#
#   Purpose: Verify user and password by connecting to the client and
#            creating a database connection
#
#   Inputs:  $self - Instance
#            $user - User name
#            $password - Password
#
############################################################################

sub AcceptUser {
    my $self = shift; my $user = shift; my $password = shift;
    return 0 if (!$self->SUPER::AcceptUser($user, $password));
    my $dsn = $self->{'application'};
    $self->Debug("Connecting to $dsn as $user");
    local $ENV{DBI_AUTOPROXY} = ''; # :-)
    $self->{'dbh'} = eval {
        DBI::ProxyServer->connect($dsn, $user, $password,
				  { 'PrintError' => 0, 
				    'Warn' => 0,
				    'RaiseError' => 1,
				    'HandleError' => sub {
				        my $err = $_[1]->err;
					my $state = $_[1]->state || '';
					$_[0] .= " [err=$err,state=$state]";
					return 0;
				    } })
    };
    if ($@) {
	$self->Error("Error while connecting to $dsn as $user: $@");
	return 0;
    }
    [1, $self->StoreHandle($self->{'dbh'}) ];
}


sub CallMethod {
    my $server = shift;
    my $dbh = $server->{'dbh'};
    # We could store the private_server attribute permanently in
    # $dbh. However, we'd have a reference loop in that case and
    # I would be concerned about garbage collection. :-(
    $dbh->{'private_server'} = $server;
    $server->Debug("CallMethod: => " . do { local $^W; join(",", @_)});
    my @result = eval { $server->SUPER::CallMethod(@_) };
    my $msg = $@;
    undef $dbh->{'private_server'};
    if ($msg) {
	$server->Debug("CallMethod died with: $@");
	die $msg;
    } else {
	$server->Debug("CallMethod: <= " . do { local $^W; join(",", @result) });
    }
    @result;
}


sub main {
    my $server = DBI::ProxyServer->new(\%DEFAULT_SERVER_OPTIONS, \@_);
    $server->Bind();
}


############################################################################
#
#   The DBI part of the proxyserver is implemented as a DBI subclass.
#   Thus we can reuse some of the DBI methods and overwrite only
#   those that need additional handling.
#
############################################################################

package DBI::ProxyServer::dr;

@DBI::ProxyServer::dr::ISA = qw(DBI::dr);


package DBI::ProxyServer::db;

@DBI::ProxyServer::db::ISA = qw(DBI::db);

sub prepare {
    my($dbh, $statement, $attr, $params, $proto_ver) = @_;
    my $server = $dbh->{'private_server'};
    if (my $client = $server->{'client'}) {
	if ($client->{'sql'}) {
	    if ($statement =~ /^\s*(\S+)/) {
		my $st = $1;
		if (!($statement = $client->{'sql'}->{$st})) {
		    die "Unknown SQL query: $st";
		}
	    } else {
		die "Cannot parse restricted SQL statement: $statement";
	    }
	}
    }
    my $sth = $dbh->SUPER::prepare($statement, $attr);
    my $handle = $server->StoreHandle($sth);

    if ( $proto_ver and $proto_ver > 1 ) {
      $sth->{private_proxyserver_described} = 0;
      return $handle;

    } else {
      # The difference between the usual prepare and ours is that we implement
      # a combined prepare/execute. The DBD::Proxy driver doesn't call us for
      # prepare. Only if an execute happens, then we are called with method
      # "prepare". Further execute's are called as "execute".
      my @result = $sth->execute($params);
      my ($NAME, $TYPE);
      my $NUM_OF_FIELDS = $sth->{NUM_OF_FIELDS};
      if ($NUM_OF_FIELDS) {	# is a SELECT
	$NAME = $sth->{NAME};
	$TYPE = $sth->{TYPE};
      }
      ($handle, $NUM_OF_FIELDS, $sth->{'NUM_OF_PARAMS'},
       $NAME, $TYPE, @result);
    }
}

sub table_info {
    my $dbh = shift;
    my $sth = $dbh->SUPER::table_info();
    my $numFields = $sth->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'};
    my $names = $sth->{'NAME'};
    my $types = $sth->{'TYPE'};

    # We wouldn't need to send all the rows at this point, instead we could
    # make use of $rsth->fetch() on the client as usual.
    # The problem is that some drivers (namely DBD::ExampleP, DBD::mysql and
    # DBD::mSQL) are returning foreign sth's here, thus an instance of
    # DBI::st and not DBI::ProxyServer::st. We could fix this by permitting
    # the client to execute method DBI::st, but I don't like this.
    my @rows;
    while (my ($row) = $sth->fetch()) {
        last unless defined $row;
	push(@rows, [@$row]);
    }
    ($numFields, $names, $types, @rows);
}


package DBI::ProxyServer::st;

@DBI::ProxyServer::st::ISA = qw(DBI::st);

sub execute {
    my $sth = shift; my $params = shift; my $proto_ver = shift;
    my @outParams;
    if ($params) {
	for (my $i = 0;  $i < @$params;) {
	    my $param = $params->[$i++];
	    if (!ref($param)) {
		$sth->bind_param($i, $param);
	    }
	    else {	
		if (!ref(@$param[0])) {#It's not a reference
		    $sth->bind_param($i, @$param);
		}
		else {
		    $sth->bind_param_inout($i, @$param);
		    my $ref = shift @$param;
		    push(@outParams, $ref);
		}
	    }
	}
    }
    my $rows = $sth->SUPER::execute();
    if ( $proto_ver and $proto_ver > 1 and not $sth->{private_proxyserver_described} ) {
      my ($NAME, $TYPE);
      my $NUM_OF_FIELDS = $sth->{NUM_OF_FIELDS};
      if ($NUM_OF_FIELDS) {	# is a SELECT
	$NAME = $sth->{NAME};
	$TYPE = $sth->{TYPE};
      }
      $sth->{private_proxyserver_described} = 1;
      # First execution, we ship back description.
      return ($rows, $NUM_OF_FIELDS, $sth->{'NUM_OF_PARAMS'}, $NAME, $TYPE, @outParams);
    }
    ($rows, @outParams);
}

sub fetch {
    my $sth = shift; my $numRows = shift || 1;
    my($ref, @rows);
    while ($numRows--  &&  ($ref = $sth->SUPER::fetch())) {
	push(@rows, [@$ref]);
    }
    @rows;
}


1;


__END__

=head1 NAME

DBI::ProxyServer - a server for the DBD::Proxy driver

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use DBI::ProxyServer;
    DBI::ProxyServer::main(@ARGV);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

DBI::Proxy Server is a module for implementing a proxy for the DBI proxy
driver, DBD::Proxy. It allows access to databases over the network if the
DBMS does not offer networked operations. But the proxy server might be
useful for you, even if you have a DBMS with integrated network
functionality: It can be used as a DBI proxy in a firewalled environment.

DBI::ProxyServer runs as a daemon on the machine with the DBMS or on the
firewall. The client connects to the agent using the DBI driver DBD::Proxy,
thus in the exactly same way than using DBD::mysql, DBD::mSQL or any other
DBI driver.

The agent is implemented as a RPC::PlServer application. Thus you have
access to all the possibilities of this module, in particular encryption
and a similar configuration file. DBI::ProxyServer adds the possibility of
query restrictions: You can define a set of queries that a client may
execute and restrict access to those. (Requires a DBI driver that supports
parameter binding.) See L</CONFIGURATION FILE>.

The provided driver script, L<dbiproxy>, may either be used as it is or
used as the basis for a local version modified to meet your needs.

=head1 OPTIONS

When calling the DBI::ProxyServer::main() function, you supply an
array of options. These options are parsed by the Getopt::Long module.
The ProxyServer inherits all of RPC::PlServer's and hence Net::Daemon's
options and option handling, in particular the ability to read
options from either the command line or a config file. See
L<RPC::PlServer>. See L<Net::Daemon>. Available options include

=over 4

=item I<chroot> (B<--chroot=dir>)

(UNIX only)  After doing a bind(), change root directory to the given
directory by doing a chroot(). This is useful for security, but it
restricts the environment a lot. For example, you need to load DBI
drivers in the config file or you have to create hard links to Unix
sockets, if your drivers are using them. For example, with MySQL, a
config file might contain the following lines:

    my $rootdir = '/var/dbiproxy';
    my $unixsockdir = '/tmp';
    my $unixsockfile = 'mysql.sock';
    foreach $dir ($rootdir, "$rootdir$unixsockdir") {
	mkdir 0755, $dir;
    }
    link("$unixsockdir/$unixsockfile",
	 "$rootdir$unixsockdir/$unixsockfile");
    require DBD::mysql;

    {
	'chroot' => $rootdir,
	...
    }

If you don't know chroot(), think of an FTP server where you can see a
certain directory tree only after logging in. See also the --group and
--user options.

=item I<clients>

An array ref with a list of clients. Clients are hash refs, the attributes
I<accept> (0 for denying access and 1 for permitting) and I<mask>, a Perl
regular expression for the clients IP number or its host name.

=item I<configfile> (B<--configfile=file>)

Config files are assumed to return a single hash ref that overrides the
arguments of the new method. However, command line arguments in turn take
precedence over the config file. See the L<"CONFIGURATION FILE"> section
below for details on the config file.

=item I<debug> (B<--debug>)

Turn debugging mode on. Mainly this asserts that logging messages of
level "debug" are created.

=item I<facility> (B<--facility=mode>)

(UNIX only) Facility to use for L<Sys::Syslog>. The default is
B<daemon>.

=item I<group> (B<--group=gid>)

After doing a bind(), change the real and effective GID to the given.
This is useful, if you want your server to bind to a privileged port
(<1024), but don't want the server to execute as root. See also
the --user option.

GID's can be passed as group names or numeric values.

=item I<localaddr> (B<--localaddr=ip>)

By default a daemon is listening to any IP number that a machine
has. This attribute allows to restrict the server to the given
IP number.

=item I<localport> (B<--localport=port>)

This attribute sets the port on which the daemon is listening. It
must be given somehow, as there's no default.

=item I<logfile> (B<--logfile=file>)

Be default logging messages will be written to the syslog (Unix) or
to the event log (Windows NT). On other operating systems you need to
specify a log file. The special value "STDERR" forces logging to
stderr. See L<Net::Daemon::Log> for details.

=item I<mode> (B<--mode=modename>)

The server can run in three different modes, depending on the environment.

If you are running Perl 5.005 and did compile it for threads, then the
server will create a new thread for each connection. The thread will
execute the server's Run() method and then terminate. This mode is the
default, you can force it with "--mode=threads".

If threads are not available, but you have a working fork(), then the
server will behave similar by creating a new process for each connection.
This mode will be used automatically in the absence of threads or if
you use the "--mode=fork" option.

Finally there's a single-connection mode: If the server has accepted a
connection, he will enter the Run() method. No other connections are
accepted until the Run() method returns (if the client disconnects).
This operation mode is useful if you have neither threads nor fork(),
for example on the Macintosh. For debugging purposes you can force this
mode with "--mode=single".

=item I<pidfile> (B<--pidfile=file>)

(UNIX only) If this option is present, a PID file will be created at the
given location. Default is to not create a pidfile.

=item I<user> (B<--user=uid>)

After doing a bind(), change the real and effective UID to the given.
This is useful, if you want your server to bind to a privileged port
(<1024), but don't want the server to execute as root. See also
the --group and the --chroot options.

UID's can be passed as group names or numeric values.

=item I<version> (B<--version>)

Suppresses startup of the server; instead the version string will
be printed and the program exits immediately.

=back

=head1 SHUTDOWN

DBI::ProxyServer is built on L<RPC::PlServer> which is, in turn, built on L<Net::Daemon>.

You should refer to L<Net::Daemon> for how to shutdown the server, except that
you can't because it's not currently documented there (as of v0.43).
The bottom-line is that it seems that there's no support for graceful shutdown.

=head1 CONFIGURATION FILE

The configuration file is just that of I<RPC::PlServer> or I<Net::Daemon>
with some additional attributes in the client list.

The config file is a Perl script. At the top of the file you may include
arbitrary Perl source, for example load drivers at the start (useful
to enhance performance), prepare a chroot environment and so on.

The important thing is that you finally return a hash ref of option
name/value pairs. The possible options are listed above.

All possibilities of Net::Daemon and RPC::PlServer apply, in particular

=over 4

=item Host and/or User dependent access control

=item Host and/or User dependent encryption

=item Changing UID and/or GID after binding to the port

=item Running in a chroot() environment

=back

Additionally the server offers you query restrictions. Suggest the
following client list:

    'clients' => [
	{ 'mask' => '^admin\.company\.com$',
          'accept' => 1,
          'users' => [ 'root', 'wwwrun' ],
        },
        {
	  'mask' => '^admin\.company\.com$',
          'accept' => 1,
          'users' => [ 'root', 'wwwrun' ],
          'sql' => {
               'select' => 'SELECT * FROM foo',
               'insert' => 'INSERT INTO foo VALUES (?, ?, ?)'
               }
        }

then only the users root and wwwrun may connect from admin.company.com,
executing arbitrary queries, but only wwwrun may connect from other
hosts and is restricted to

    $sth->prepare("select");

or

    $sth->prepare("insert");

which in fact are "SELECT * FROM foo" or "INSERT INTO foo VALUES (?, ?, ?)".


=head1 Proxyserver Configuration file (bigger example)

This section tells you how to restrict a DBI-Proxy: Not every user from
every workstation shall be able to execute every query.

There is a perl program "dbiproxy" which runs on a machine which is able
to connect to all the databases we wish to reach. All Perl-DBD-drivers must
be installed on this machine. You can also reach databases for which drivers 
are not available on the machine where you run the program querying the 
database, e.g. ask MS-Access-database from Linux.

Create a configuration file "proxy_oracle.cfg" at the dbproxy-server:

    {
	# This shall run in a shell or a DOS-window 
	# facility => 'daemon',
	pidfile => 'your_dbiproxy.pid',
	logfile => 1,
	debug => 0,
	mode => 'single',
	localport => '12400',

	# Access control, the first match in this list wins!
	# So the order is important
	clients => [
		# hint to organize:
		# the most specialized rules for single machines/users are 1st
		# then the denying rules
		# the the rules about whole networks

		# rule: internal_webserver
		# desc: to get statistical information
		{
			# this IP-address only is meant
			mask => '^10\.95\.81\.243$',
			# accept (not defer) connections like this
			accept => 1,
			# only users from this list 
			# are allowed to log on
			users => [ 'informationdesk' ],
			# only this statistical query is allowed
			# to get results for a web-query
			sql => {
				alive => 'select count(*) from dual',
				statistic_area => 'select count(*) from e01admin.e01e203 where geb_bezei like ?',
			}
		},

		# rule: internal_bad_guy_1
		{
			mask => '^10\.95\.81\.1$',
			accept => 0,
		},

		# rule: employee_workplace
		# desc: get detailled information
		{
			# any IP-address is meant here
			mask => '^10\.95\.81\.(\d+)$',
			# accept (not defer) connections like this
			accept => 1,
			# only users from this list 
			# are allowed to log on
			users => [ 'informationdesk', 'lippmann' ],
			# all these queries are allowed:
			sql => {
				search_city => 'select ort_nr, plz, ort from e01admin.e01e200 where plz like ?',
				search_area => 'select gebiettyp, geb_bezei from e01admin.e01e203 where geb_bezei like ? or geb_bezei like ?',
			}
		},

		# rule: internal_bad_guy_2 
		# This does NOT work, because rule "employee_workplace" hits
		# with its ip-address-mask of the whole network
		{
			# don't accept connection from this ip-address
			mask => '^10\.95\.81\.5$',
			accept => 0,
		}
	]
    }

Start the proxyserver like this:

	rem well-set Oracle_home needed for Oracle
	set ORACLE_HOME=d:\oracle\ora81
	dbiproxy --configfile proxy_oracle.cfg


=head2 Testing the connection from a remote machine

Call a program "dbish" from your commandline. I take the machine from rule "internal_webserver"

	dbish "dbi:Proxy:hostname=oracle.zdf;port=12400;dsn=dbi:Oracle:e01" informationdesk xxx

There will be a shell-prompt:

	informationdesk@dbi...> alive

	Current statement buffer (enter '/'...):
	alive

	informationdesk@dbi...> /
	COUNT(*)
	'1'
	[1 rows of 1 fields returned]


=head2 Testing the connection with a perl-script

Create a perl-script like this:

	# file: oratest.pl
	# call me like this: perl oratest.pl user password

	use strict;
	use DBI;

	my $user = shift || die "Usage: $0 user password";
	my $pass = shift || die "Usage: $0 user password";
	my $config = {
		dsn_at_proxy => "dbi:Oracle:e01",
		proxy => "hostname=oechsle.zdf;port=12400",
	};
	my $dsn = sprintf "dbi:Proxy:%s;dsn=%s",
		$config->{proxy},
		$config->{dsn_at_proxy};

	my $dbh = DBI->connect( $dsn, $user, $pass )
		|| die "connect did not work: $DBI::errstr";

	my $sql = "search_city";
	printf "%s\n%s\n%s\n", "="x40, $sql, "="x40;
	my $cur = $dbh->prepare($sql);
	$cur->bind_param(1,'905%');
	&show_result ($cur);

	my $sql = "search_area";
	printf "%s\n%s\n%s\n", "="x40, $sql, "="x40;
	my $cur = $dbh->prepare($sql);
	$cur->bind_param(1,'Pfarr%');
	$cur->bind_param(2,'Bronnamberg%');
	&show_result ($cur);

	my $sql = "statistic_area";
	printf "%s\n%s\n%s\n", "="x40, $sql, "="x40;
	my $cur = $dbh->prepare($sql);
	$cur->bind_param(1,'Pfarr%');
	&show_result ($cur);

	$dbh->disconnect;
	exit;


	sub show_result {
		my $cur = shift;
		unless ($cur->execute()) {
			print "Could not execute\n"; 
			return; 
		}

		my $rownum = 0;
		while (my @row = $cur->fetchrow_array()) {
			printf "Row is: %s\n", join(", ",@row);
			if ($rownum++ > 5) {
				print "... and so on\n";
				last;
			}	
		}
		$cur->finish;
	}

The result

	C:\>perl oratest.pl informationdesk xxx
	========================================
	search_city
	========================================
	Row is: 3322, 9050, Chemnitz
	Row is: 3678, 9051, Chemnitz
	Row is: 10447, 9051, Chemnitz
	Row is: 12128, 9051, Chemnitz
	Row is: 10954, 90513, Zirndorf
	Row is: 5808, 90513, Zirndorf
	Row is: 5715, 90513, Zirndorf
	... and so on
	========================================
	search_area
	========================================
	Row is: 101, Bronnamberg
	Row is: 400, Pfarramt Zirndorf
	Row is: 400, Pfarramt Rosstal
	Row is: 400, Pfarramt Oberasbach
	Row is: 401, Pfarramt Zirndorf
	Row is: 401, Pfarramt Rosstal
	========================================
	statistic_area
	========================================
	DBD::Proxy::st execute failed: Server returned error: Failed to execute method CallMethod: Unknown SQL query: statistic_area at E:/Perl/site/lib/DBI/ProxyServer.pm line 258.
	Could not execute


=head2 How the configuration works

The most important section to control access to your dbi-proxy is "client=>"
in the file "proxy_oracle.cfg":

Controlling which person at which machine is allowed to access

=over 4

=item * "mask" is a perl regular expression against the plain ip-address of the machine which wishes to connect _or_ the reverse-lookup from a nameserver.

=item * "accept" tells the dbiproxy-server wether ip-adresse like in "mask" are allowed to connect or not (0/1)

=item * "users" is a reference to a list of usernames which must be matched, this is NOT a regular expression.

=back

Controlling which SQL-statements are allowed

You can put every SQL-statement you like in simply ommiting "sql => ...", but the more important thing is to restrict the connection so that only allowed queries are possible.

If you include an sql-section in your config-file like this:

	sql => {
		alive => 'select count(*) from dual',
		statistic_area => 'select count(*) from e01admin.e01e203 where geb_bezei like ?',
	}

The user is allowed to put two queries against the dbi-proxy. The queries are _not_ "select count(*)...", the queries are "alive" and "statistic_area"! These keywords are replaced by the real query. So you can run a query for "alive":

	my $sql = "alive";
	my $cur = $dbh->prepare($sql);
	...

The flexibility is that you can put parameters in the where-part of the query so the query are not static. Simply replace a value in the where-part of the query through a question mark and bind it as a parameter to the query. 

	my $sql = "statistic_area";
	my $cur = $dbh->prepare($sql);
	$cur->bind_param(1,'905%');
	# A second parameter would be called like this:
	# $cur->bind_param(2,'98%');

The result is this query:

	select count(*) from e01admin.e01e203 
	where geb_bezei like '905%'

Don't try to put parameters into the sql-query like this:

	# Does not work like you think.
	# Only the first word of the query is parsed,
	# so it's changed to "statistic_area", the rest is omitted.
	# You _have_ to work with $cur->bind_param.
	my $sql = "statistic_area 905%";
	my $cur = $dbh->prepare($sql);
	...


=head2 Problems

=over 4

=item * I don't know how to restrict users to special databases.

=item * I don't know how to pass query-parameters via dbish

=back


=head1 AUTHOR

    Copyright (c) 1997    Jochen Wiedmann
                          Am Eisteich 9
                          72555 Metzingen
                          Germany

                          Email: joe@ispsoft.de
                          Phone: +49 7123 14881

The DBI::ProxyServer module is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. In particular
permission is granted to Tim Bunce for distributing this as a part of
the DBI.


=head1 SEE ALSO

L<dbiproxy>, L<DBD::Proxy>, L<DBI>, L<RPC::PlServer>,
L<RPC::PlClient>, L<Net::Daemon>, L<Net::Daemon::Log>,
L<Sys::Syslog>, L<Win32::EventLog>, L<syslog>