[Tutor] Including files for security.

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 22:38:41 CEST 2008


2008/8/24 Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>:
>
> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote
>
>> I think that I will use the open() and read() functions, thanks! I did
>> think of that, but I wanted to know if there was a better wheel
>> invented already.
>
> Another option is to use environment variables to store them.
> These can be set when the server starts up. But a config file
> is ok too.
>

Thanks, I will google that. But I will save it for other uses, as I
don't want to risk an exploit where one could walk the environment and
discover that info. Does Python have an equivalent to phpinfo()?

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