Newbie's or people seeking help with bad security
standards, could give away the password to there SQL server, etc.
Maybe the phps parser or whatever it's called should automatically ***
out the password fields of all the db, ftp, etc. calls.

Adam Voigt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 13:05, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> At 12:27 19/09/2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> >Dan Hardiker wrote:
> >>We are dealing with *idiots* here. Their CODE doesnt work, they are
> >>*learning* PHP, they want help on their *non-functional* code, easily,
> >>simply and quickly.
> >>We can already say "put this in a .php file then give us the URL to it"
> >>and cut n paste them a short script which will show_source their script.
> >>However this is TOO MUCH for most newbies and people I encounter daily in
> >>#php on dal.net - now if I asked them for a URL to their script, they give
> >>me http://whatever.com/script.php so I can see the error in action - I
> >>tell them "ok, rename it to phps". Voila - I get the source.
> >>THIS is where phps is SO useful.
> >
> >I'm not insisting we should remove phps, but discourage use of it :)
> 
> Can you explain why?
> 
> Zeev
> 
> 
> -- 
> PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/>
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
> 



-- 
PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/>
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Reply via email to