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Re: Magic quotes? Should I still be cautious? [message #176428 is a reply to message #176427]

Fri, 06 January 2012 18:04

Jerry Stuckle
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On 1/6/2012 12:18 PM, M. Strobel wrote:
> 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.
>
> /Str

This is one which only those unconcerned about security use.

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