Hi Ryan,
Am 23.08.2010 22:16, schrieb Gloves 12:
Maybe I'm being overly cautions. But I know that, even though I
work hard at making them good, some of my cURL calls are not exactly
the same as their browser counterparts. I'm wondering if anyone else
has ever considered this, or knows anything more about it (like "yes,
we all worry about this a ton, you need to be testing your cURL
statements a lot better" or "no, these never matter - it's really rare
that even a terribly sloppy cURL call would ever harm a website").
Thanks for any thoughts or advice!
well, it sounds to me that you fear too much. If things like what you
describe happen then most likely you discovered a security leak of a
remote server, otherwise all remote servers are prepared (or should be)
to receive any request, and in case of a bad one to reject it. Sure
almost every traffic gets logged, but a skilled admin has no problem to
distinguish between bad requests and real server probs.
Unless you go and *hammer* on remote servers (means to send few 1000
requests in shor time) I think you can do no harm.
If you want to make your work better then I suggest you ty to understand
the 'other side' a bit more: go and install an own Apache server on your
machine (free software, and for almost every platform available) which
is the server you deal in about 70% of all remote servers; make requests
to your own Apache, and read the error and access logs; that will make
you learn how a server behaves, and probably also how you can make your
code better.
HTH, Gün.
BTW. such a question might fit better on the curl user list rather than
here on the developer list.
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