Re: Thread Reading

From: Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:10:14 +0000
Subject: Re: Thread Reading
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Newbie's or people seeking help with bad security standards, could give away the password to there SQL server, etc. Maybe the phps parser or whatever it's called should automatically *** out the password fields of all the db, ftp, etc. calls. Adam Voigt adam.voigt@cryptocomm.com On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 13:05, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 12:27 19/09/2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > >Dan Hardiker wrote: > >>We are dealing with *idiots* here. Their CODE doesnt work, they are > >>*learning* PHP, they want help on their *non-functional* code, easily, > >>simply and quickly. > >>We can already say "put this in a .php file then give us the URL to it" > >>and cut n paste them a short script which will show_source their script. > >>However this is TOO MUCH for most newbies and people I encounter daily in > >>#php on dal.net - now if I asked them for a URL to their script, they give > >>me http://whatever.com/script.php so I can see the > >>error in action - I > >>tell them "ok, rename it to phps". Voila - I get the source. > >>THIS is where phps is SO useful. > > > >I'm not insisting we should remove phps, but discourage use of it :) > > Can you explain why? > > Zeev > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >

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