Hi Ilia:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:27:53PM -0500, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> The data will not be parsed or output. When you need it you would make
> the script open itself and read the (binary) data dump from the end of
> the file and use it various creative ways.
Interesting. I'm wondering about the security implications of this.
This makes it very easy to use PHP as a means to propogate all sorts of
nasty things. Well, people could even do that today in one script by
setting a variable to a base64 encoded string then decoding it. None the
less, putting binary data in PHP scripts gives me pause.
--Dan
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