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[nycphp-talk] Basic security question

Chris Shiflett shiflett at php.net
Sat Jul 17 02:47:30 EDT 2004


--- Hans Zaunere <hans not junk at nyphp.com> wrote:
> I proudly run .php extensions, default error messages, and the
> X-Powered-By: PHP   HTTP header.

I agree with everything Hans said (of course), but I'm not sure one should
be so proud about displaying error messages. :-)

Kidding aside, I think it's pretty easy to set display_errors to Off and
log_errors to On. I'm as guilty as anyone else about not adhering to my
own suggestions sometimes, but if you're concerned about giving away too
much information, I think error messages are the first place to be
looking.

Chris

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