note 28912 added to function.sleep

From: Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:33:28 +0000
Subject: note 28912 added to function.sleep
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Contrary to previous posts, sleep provides not security whatsoever against crackers. They can quite easily create a multithreaded program that will try 1000 passwords at a time effectively disabling your sleep pause, and sessions don't help as each a request can make itself look like a new session. The only way to make this effective at all is to store the last time a user attempted to login in a database and onyl allow x tries per time period. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+28912 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+28912 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+28912

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