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-minimize the possibility that malicious data can be passed to your application. URIs may only contain the following:
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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
-retrieving data from your database.</p>
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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,
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-used techniques to embed malicious Javascript into your data, or other types of code that attempt to hijack cookies
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-</li>
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-<a href="../database/queries.html">queries</a> for more information.</p>
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<head> + +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> +<title>Security : CodeIgniter User Guide</title> + +<style type='text/css' media='all'>@import url('../userguide.css');</style> +<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='../userguide.css' /> + +<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/nav.js"></script> +<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/prototype.lite.js"></script> +<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/moo.fx.js"></script> +<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/user_guide_menu.js"></script> + +<meta http-equiv='expires' content='-1' /> +<meta http-equiv= 'pragma' content='no-cache' /> +<meta name='robots' content='all' /> +<meta name='author' content='ExpressionEngine Dev Team' /> +<meta name='description' content='CodeIgniter User Guide' /> + +</head> +<body> + +<!-- START NAVIGATION --> +<div id="nav"><div id="nav_inner"><script type="text/javascript">create_menu('../');</script></div></div> +<div id="nav2"><a name="top"></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="myHeight.toggle();"><img src="../images/nav_toggle_darker.jpg" width="154" height="43" border="0" title="Toggle Table of Contents" alt="Toggle Table of Contents" /></a></div> +<div id="masthead"> +<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%"> +<tr> +<td><h1>CodeIgniter User Guide Version 1.7</h1></td> +<td id="breadcrumb_right"><a href="../toc.html">Table of Contents Page</a></td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> +<!-- END NAVIGATION --> + + +<!-- START BREADCRUMB --> +<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%"> +<tr> +<td id="breadcrumb"> +<a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a> › +<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> › +Security +</td> +<td id="searchbox"><form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" id="as_sitesearch" value="codeigniter.com/user_guide/" />Search User Guide <input type="text" class="input" style="width:200px;" name="q" id="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" /> <input type="submit" class="submit" name="sa" value="Go" /></form></td> +</tr> +</table> +<!-- END BREADCRUMB --> + +<br clear="all" /> + + +<!-- START CONTENT --> +<div id="content"> + +<h1>Security</h1> + +<p>This page describes some "best practices" regarding web security, and details +CodeIgniter's internal security features.</p> + + +<h2>URI Security</h2> + +<p>CodeIgniter is fairly restrictive regarding which characters it allows in your URI strings in order to help +minimize the possibility that malicious data can be passed to your application. URIs may only contain the following: +</p> + +<ul> +<li>Alpha-numeric text</li> +<li>Tilde: ~ </li> +<li>Period: .</li> +<li>Colon: :</li> +<li>Underscore: _</li> +<li>Dash: -</li> +</ul> + +<h2>GET, POST, and COOKIE Data</h2> + +<p>GET data is simply disallowed by CodeIgniter since the system utilizes URI segments rather than traditional URL query strings (unless +you have the query string option enabled in your config file). The global GET +array is <strong>unset</strong> by the Input class during system initialization.</p> + +<h2>Register_globals</h2> + +<p>During system initialization all global variables are unset, except those found in the $_POST and $_COOKIE arrays. The unsetting +routine is effectively the same as register_globals = off.</p> + + +<h2>magic_quotes_runtime</h2> + +<p>The magic_quotes_runtime directive is turned off during system initialization so that you don't have to remove slashes when +retrieving data from your database.</p> + +<h1>Best Practices</h1> + +<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> + +<ol> +<li>Filter the data as if it were tainted.</li> +<li>Validate the data to ensure it conforms to the correct type, length, size, etc. (sometimes this step can replace step one)</li> +<li>Escape the data before submitting it into your database.</li> +</ol> + +<p>CodeIgniter provides the following functions to assist in this process:</p> + +<ul> + +<li><h2>XSS Filtering</h2> + +<p>CodeIgniter comes with a Cross Site Scripting filter. This filter looks for commonly +used techniques to embed malicious Javascript into your data, or other types of code that attempt to hijack cookies +or do other malicious things. The XSS Filter is described <a href="../libraries/input.html">here</a>. +</p> +</li> + +<li><h2>Validate the data</h2> + +<p>CodeIgniter has a <a href="../libraries/form_validation.html">Form Validation Class</a> that assists you in validating, filtering, and prepping +your data.</p> +</li> + +<li><h2>Escape all data before database insertion</h2> + +<p>Never insert information into your database without escaping it. Please see the section that discusses +<a href="../database/queries.html">queries</a> for more information.</p> + +</li> + +</ul> + + + + +</div> +<!-- END CONTENT --> + + +<div id="footer"> +<p> +Previous Topic: <a href="alternative_php.html">Alternative PHP</a> + · +<a href="#top">Top of Page</a> · +<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> · +Next Topic: <a href="styleguide.html">PHP Style Guide</a> +</p> +<p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> · Copyright © 2006-2008 · <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p> +</div> + +</body> </html>
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