note 29443 added to security.filesystem

From: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:16:40 +0000
Subject: note 29443 added to security.filesystem
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The comment about replacing "." by "" is misleading people into believing that this is a way of cleaning strings of nasty content. The author just forgot the obvious - using absolute paths, such as "/the/secret/path/to/secrets.txt" and "/etc/passwd". -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.filesystem.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+29443 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+29443 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+29443

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