On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:43:21PM -0500, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> Daniel Convissor wrote:
> >Interesting. I'm wondering about the security implications of this.
> >This makes it very easy to use PHP as a means to propogate all sorts of
> >nasty things.
>
> You can already use PHP to propagate all sorts of nasty things, nothing
> changes in this respect.
>
> >Well, people could even do that today in one script by
> >setting a variable to a base64 encoded string then decoding it.
>
> Sure, BUT this approach makes the final file approximately %30 larger
... snip...
No doubt. My second point was more to diminish my initial assertion, not
to diminish the validity of your patch.
Thanks,
--Dan
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