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Re: Re: The danger of hidden fields

by Anonymous Monk
on Jul 23, 2002 at 10:45 UTC ( [id://184372]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: The danger of hidden fields
in thread The danger of hidden fields

The heart may be in the wrong place, but trusting HTTP_REFERER for a validity check is not the right solution.

Also if you are trusting user input to name a file, what if the user names a "file" (with proper encoding of course) something like | rm -rf /?

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