how to not send plaintext when using mysql_connect -- REPOST

Never got a reply on this one, so I'm hoping the second time someone will know the answer. :) -----Original Message----- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:DayWalker@thematrix.com] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 4:07 PM To: PHP General Subject: [PHP] how to not send plaintext when using mysql_connect http://www.php.net/manual/function.mysql-connect.php indicates that I have to use the plaintext version of my password... this is unacceptable for having the website server connecting to the mySQL server as it can be sniffed easily. Is there a way to encrypt this information somehow? there is a comment at the bottom of the page, but I'm not sure I understand it. It implies that MD5 is done transparently somehow, but I'm told by my IS department that they are able to sniff the user/password that I'm sending in my PHP scripts... bdonor@westnet.com 10-Sep-2000 04:22 I'm sure most people have figured this out (possibly I missed it in the documentation) but both mysql_connect and mysql_pconnect expect the plaintext password, NOT the MD5 hash of the password. It does that all by itself. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net