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 Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/24/07 12:04 
semi_evil@inbox.com wrote: 
> On May 24, 5:58 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote: 
> [snip : gist: magic_quotes_gpc should be switched off] 
>>> Thanks Jerry for your complete and friendly reply, I nearly went 
>>> bonkers over this issue. 
>>> Cheers, 
>>> Semi 
>> NP, Semi. 
>> 
>> And one other thing - if your hosting company doesn't know enough to 
>> change it, it's time to change hosting companies.  If they're that 
>> clueless about magic_quotes_gpc, who knows what serious security 
>> problems they might leave open? 
>> 
> It took one mail and less than 20 minutes to get it fixed! It had been 
> switched to on inadvertedly when they upgraded php to version 5. (It's 
> on by default). 
> 
 
That's good.  You'd be surprised how clueless some hosting companies are. 
 
> Security will always be a weak spot on shared environments unless the 
> server is set up to spawn separate apache instances with unique 
> user:group per customer. But other than that my sp seems pretty 
> knowledgeable and they take security seriously. At least in the eyes 
> of yours truly, admittedly hardly an expert myself... 
>  
> Semi. 
>  
 
Doesn't have to be.  Both PHP and Apache have built-in safeguards for  
shared hosting environments. 
 
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