Archive for January, 2014

 

 

Upgrading PHP?

Monday, January 27th, 2014

If you think that by upgrading to the latest version of PHP you will be more secure than before you might be wrong. Some security features such as magic quotes GPC and safe mode have been removed as of 5.4.

In HTTP all of the communication coming into a web app from the outside world happens via one of the 3 channels (Get, Post and Cookie). The magic quotes GPC feature automatically escapes the input.

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