[snip]
Sorry, but I am a bit behind on MySQL digest, but
isn't turning Register Globals 'on' for php a security
risk? 
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We recently had this discussion on the PHP-General list and the upshot
is that having register_globals 'on' is only a security risk if the code
is sloppy. PHP allows this as the variables are not strongly typed and
most developer fail to do any checking of variables to make sure that
they contain what they want them to contain. Turning register_globals
'off' does not take care of that. It just adds another layer of
abstraction to certain vaariables (such as GET, POST, etc) which is
still vulnerable if the developer does not do a good job of taking care
with his or her variables.

HTH!

Jay

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