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authorKyle Farris <kylefarris@kylefarris.gotdns.org>2011-10-14 21:43:25 +0200
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-<h2>URI Security</h2>
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- value of '<kbd>production</kbd>' will turn off these errors. In development
- mode, it is recommended that a value of '<kbd>development</kbd>' is used.
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-<p>The magic_quotes_runtime directive is turned off during system initialization so that you don't have to remove slashes when
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-<h1>Best Practices</h1>
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-<p>Before accepting any data into your application, whether it be POST data from a form submission, COOKIE data, URI data,
-XML-RPC data, or even data from the SERVER array, you are encouraged to practice this three step approach:</p>
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-or do other malicious things. The XSS Filter is described <a href="../libraries/security.html">here</a>.
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