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RE: Policy on Web Applications



On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 09:00 -0600, David Johnson wrote:
> The policy document looks great and carefully thought out. We have not
> finished our package development and released it yet, so we're not certain.
> One question is in regards to PHP configuration.  For example our
> application requires "register_global" to be turned on in PHP (which has
> sufficient security structure in place where this is not a problem for us).
> What approach should we take here?

There are ways to turn register_globals off for specific paths or
locations on your webserver, at least in Apache. You could advise the
users of your package to do that, and be sure to mention that they
should not turn it on site-wide.

I'm wondering however why your application requires it; I see no need
for any modern application to use that setting since there are good
alternatives available that are safe by design.


bye,
Thijs

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