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[nycphp-talk] allow_url_fopen

Chris Shiflett shiflett at php.net
Sat Aug 21 00:13:35 EDT 2004


--- George Schlossnagle <george at omniti.com> wrote:
> allow_url_fopen is a pretty big security issue - it really heightens 
> your exposure to cross-site scripting attacks.

I agree with the first point, but I don't follow the second one. Are you
considering the accidental inclusion of foreign source code to be a
cross-site scripting attack, or is there something I'm missing?

Chris

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