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Section 9 - Security Issues

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78183472

Section 9 - Security Issues
July 24, 2013 07:12PM

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Completed!
There are some links at the end of section 10 to more articles about security (or if you just search via google you'll find tons of articles!) smile

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78125766Suzan

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
July 24, 2013 07:33PM

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Hi

might be that i'm doing something wrong, my page doesn't give me a link like the tutorial explains.

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78183472

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
July 24, 2013 07:40PM

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The link at the bottom of page 3 (section 9) links to a website that says the website is offline due to maintenance (been like that for a few days)

These are the links at the end of section 10 if you can't find it :

For a more in-depth discussion on this, and other security issues, these links are quite useful:
http://www.developer.com/lang/article.php/918141
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/security/writing-secure-php/3/
http://www.sklar.com/page/article/owasp-top-ten
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/PHP-Security-Mistakes/
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/07/31/php_foundations.html

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78125766Suzan

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
July 24, 2013 08:07PM

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Sorry, I meant when I use this:

<A HREF ="nastysite">A Nasty Site</A>

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bigron11

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
July 24, 2013 10:07PM

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You need to provide the full url to link to a site on the internet -

Language: HTML
<a href="http://www.nastysite.com"> A Nasty Site</a>

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78125766Suzan

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
July 25, 2013 07:54PM

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thanks for your help, it really worked.

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78183294

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
July 28, 2013 09:41PM

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Fun section, try using google translate for the different language's and test your code, it really works well, complete.

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Brad_78160642

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
July 29, 2013 08:25PM

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Done, some important functions.

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78185106

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
August 04, 2013 08:20PM

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all done.

find it vary interesting because to block a hacker you should know how to hack smiling smiley

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Tessa-78154839

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
August 08, 2013 01:07PM

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Completed sections 8 and 9.
Very interesting and useful!

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Susan 70254443

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
August 09, 2013 06:18PM

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Public holidays are awesome for studying! smiling smiley

I have completed chapter 9 today.
@78125766Suzan My example didn't open correctly either, I discovered that this is because the strip tags function was not commented out from the php code. It appears as follows:

Language: PHP
//$first_name = htmlspecialchars($first_name);
$first_name = strip_tags($first_name, "<B>");
//$first_name = htmlentities($first_name);

Comment out // the middle line, and it will render correctly.

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shailen72991070

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
August 12, 2013 11:15AM

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Section 9 - Security Issues: Competed , Found this section very interesting learnt allot.

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gouwem-77858204

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
August 14, 2013 01:05PM

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Completed section 9.

The section was good, at least this is something that as a Web Developer I'll get to remember at all the times just to protect my work.

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Warren-78026563

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
August 16, 2013 11:37AM

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Section 9 completed.

Very useful section. Will definitely check out the security discussions on the Secguru.com site - site is currently under maintenance.

Warren

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kiroant-77337840

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
August 18, 2013 10:25AM

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Completed this section. The site for the link is still under maintenance.

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Elizabeth - 78124018

Re: Section 9 - Security Issues
August 19, 2013 10:09PM

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Section completed.

Noticed the same as Susan, I also spotted the Strip-line and commented it out. So glad for this section, was really starting to wonder about security...

I think I now also understand what happened in one of our computer labs where the IT students spend so much time! Will definitely investigate tomorrow! smile