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Re: Magic quotes? Should I still be cautious? [message #176508 is a reply to message #176427]

Sun, 08 January 2012 19:48

Arno Welzel
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M. Strobel, 2012-01-06 18:18:

> Am 06.01.2012 14:32, schrieb Jerry Stuckle:
>> On 1/6/2012 6:05 AM, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle schrieb:
>>>
>>>> $REQUESTS is quite dangerous. You never know whether it comes
>>>> from
>>>> $_GET, $_POST or $_COOKIE, for instance.
>>>
>>> True, you don't know. But does it matter? The only problem I
>>> see is that
>>> the order of precedence of the three input sources depends on
>>> the PHP
>>> configuration, but aside from that, the script is given a
>>> "foo=bar" and
>>> a hacker could always send that via any of GET, POST or COOKIE.
>>> So my
>>> script should not be dependent on that. I find it rather
>>> convenient to
>>> be able to send commands/arguments to my script via any of the
>>> three
>>> methods.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>
>> No, it doesn't matter if you aren't concerned about security.
>>
>
> I think programming leaves enough room for everybody to use $_GET
> and $_POST to their liking, but
>
> $_REQUEST is no more dangerous than one of GPC.
>
> There are some programming mantras you have to keep on saying,
> this is not one of it.

In fact, PHP has a lot of "historical" security flaws and i agree it is
not a good idea to use $_REQUEST instead of $_POST or $_GET.

My "hack" to avoid Magic Quotes without changing existing code uses
$_REQUEST only, because existing code - which may not be my own code -
may rely on it.

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		Re: Magic quotes? Should I still be cautious? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 06 January 2012 13:32
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		Re: Magic quotes? Should I still be cautious? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 06 January 2012 18:04
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		Re: Magic quotes? Should I still be cautious? By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sat, 07 January 2012 16:59
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