On 20-Oct-06, at 10:24 AM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
its funny that ext/mysql is supposed to stay around for BC
reasons even in PHP6, yet it has known unsolvable security issues.
Such as?
for example, it does not support the new more secure authentication
protocol.
Which matters little since you can connect to MySQL via SSH tunnel
ensuring all communication is encrypted or communicate via a UNIX
domain socket with a local MySQL server.
Ilia Alshanetsky
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