Re: Verify script location...

Essentially what I would like to do is to prevent this kind of thing from happening to my own website, just to clear up my example. =) Jas "Jas" <jlgerfen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20020305191102.71821.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Ok I think I am a little confused... with regards to include() and > require(), if I knew the name of a file on say brownstone.com and that file > was called database.inc and it contained all the connection settings for > brownstone.com's database. Say I run a website called hacktheplanet.com and > I wanted to include brownstones.com database.inc file in one of my own > scripts so I could run searches on their inventory from my domain. Is this > or is this not possible? > Thanks in advance, > Jas > > "Kevin Stone" <kevin@helpelf.com> wrote in message > news:000301c1c477$aaf1cc10$6801a8c0@kevin... > > It's not possible to include() a remote file so there may be little > > point to this. However maybe you want to keep users on your system from > > including the file in their scripts. In that case I suppose you could > > set $PHP_SELF (of the main script) to a temporary variable for checking > > in the included script. -Kevin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jas [mailto:jlgerfen@hotmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:50 PM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] Verify script location... > > > > Ok I have a question that i havent seen a tutorial on... How would I go > > about making an included file check the host before executing? I want > > to > > make sure that any files I use as included in a php document verify the > > request is coming from a valid script on the same server for instance.. > > Is > > this possible and if so could someone give me some more insight or a > > tutorial on this? Thanks in advance... > > Jas > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > >