note 93230 added to features.remote-files
| From: | Abhijit at osu1 dot php dot net | Date: | Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:36:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 93230 added to features.remote-files | ||
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I recommend to keep this directive -- allow_url_fopen to 'Off', when your site goes live.
It resulted in a security break in my application where the contents of a file db.inc were relayed
by the browser , which contained MySQL servers DB credentials. A lesson well learnt by me !
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Server IP: 69.147.83.197
Probable Submitter: 59.161.14.11 (proxied: 59.161.14.11)
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Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php
Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/93230
Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93230/integrated
Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93230/useless
Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93230/bad+code
Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93230/spam
Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93230/non-english
Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93230/in+docs
Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93230
Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/93230
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