RE: [PHP-WIN] Get/Post and Security Issues
| From: | Mikey | Date: | Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:40:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-WIN] Get/Post and Security Issues | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.windows |
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Can you send a copy of the HTML form that posts to your function?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Graham [mailto:croakingfrog@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 24 June 2002 08:27
> To: php-windows@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-WIN] Get/Post and Security Issues
>
>
> Apache 1.3.26
> PHP 4.2.1
>
> When I enter username and password information onto a page, it
> uses Get and
> puts the session ID along with the username and the password into the URL,
> despite my saying "method=post" in the form attributes.
>
> This seems like it would be a common problem, but my research
> isn't bringing
> up anything even remotely about it.
>
> I've done very, very little tweaking to my php.ini and httpd.conf to give
> you an idea of what defaults are in place still. Here is the
> function code:
>
> function user_login() {
> global $usern;
> global $userp;
> global $feedback;
> global $loginswitch;
> if (!isSet($usern) && !isSet($userp))
> return FALSE;
> if ($usern == '' or $userp == '') {
> $loginswitch = FALSE;
> $feedback = "Username and/or password is missing.";
> return FALSE;
> }
> $uname = strtolower($usern);
> $query = "SELECT user_name, user_pass, user_isconfirmed
> FROM user
> WHERE user_name = '$usern'
> AND user_pass = '$userp'";
> $results = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
> $row = mysql_fetch_row($results);
> if ($usern == $row[0] && $userp == $row[1]) {
> $_SESSION['loginswitch'] = TRUE;
> $_SESSION['username'] = $usern;
> $feedback = "You are now logged in.";
> return TRUE;
> }
> else {
> $_SESSION['loginswitch'] = FALSE;
> $feedback = "Username of password are incorrect.";
> return FALSE;
> }
> }
>
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