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Re: monitoring IP address calls of a PHP application [message #175063 is a reply to message #175057]

Tue, 09 August 2011 11:40

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On 8/9/2011 2:00 AM, E.Sajad wrote:
> So I'm trying to protect myself by somehow verifying that their
> delivered application:
>
> 1. Does not connect to/use/call any other web services or connect to
> other IP addresses (or servers) other than Google [note: the
> application extracts some info from Google search results]
> 2. Does not connect to any databases other than the one on the local
> server
> 3. Does not use any third-party libraries that I might have to pay for
> in the future.
> 4. Does not contain files that, although they need to be editable (for
> future modification, such as XML configuration files), have been
> converted into binary or non-editable or non-readable format.

<snip>

> I believe if I can somehow monitor all the IP addresses that the
> application calls (connects to) in
> real time, I'll be able to check if it's referencing any web services
> or sources other than Google as well as other than my own database.
> This alone will solve concerns number 1 and 2. But I don't even know
> how to do this! Should I install a monitoring application on my
> virtual dedicated server that would run in the background? What
> application(s) do you folks recommend?

<snip>

Practically speaking, if the person who did the coding is in fact
devious (I'm not assuming so but looking at worst case) it would be easy
to write code that would activate #1 and #2 at some point in the future.
That the code does neither now may be of little comfort.

Bill B

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		monitoring IP address calls of a PHP application By: E.Sajad on Tue, 09 August 2011 06:00
		Re: monitoring IP address calls of a PHP application By: Michael Vilain on Tue, 09 August 2011 06:19
		Re: monitoring IP address calls of a PHP application By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 09 August 2011 11:26
		Re: monitoring IP address calls of a PHP application By: me on Tue, 09 August 2011 11:40
		Re: monitoring IP address calls of a PHP application By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 09 August 2011 12:50
		Re: monitoring IP address calls of a PHP application By: me on Tue, 09 August 2011 13:30

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