note 8124 deleted from function.sleep by jsheets
| From: | jsheets@php.net | Date: | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:22:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 8124 deleted from function.sleep by jsheets | ||
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sleep() is useful as a hack delay. For example, in a login screen. Use sleep() when you have
determined the username/password combination entered in a form is invalid. A sleep of a second is
almost not noticable to the user, but frustrates a cracker trying to use brute force methods to gain
access to your restricted area. Make sure you use sleep() before outputting any HTML, otherwise you
may tip the cracker that the login failed before you enter sleep().