Re: Sane path? Avoiding people climbing in directory structure ../../

Just to aknowledge that your post is being read: I think that's all you have to do - that obviously doesn't necessarily mean I'm also right. :-) Bogdan Jimmy Lantz wrote:

Hi, I'm planning on using userinput as a part of path to read (horrific I know :) So to make this userinput a bit more secure I'm thinking to use $path = escapeshellarg($path); $path = str_replace("../","",$path); I'm thinking to use a basedir in a constant something like /usr/home/userdir (this also being set in php.ini) then add the userinput and then append that to the constant and then use opendir() on it. I want to avoid people putting in nice little strings like ../../../etc/ Any other pointers? / Jim Security is a state of mind not a sales arguement! *** Secret behind flying= Throw yourself at the ground and miss :-)