Posted by flamer die.spam@hotmail.com on 10/02/06 21:21

Le Poisson wrote:

> My apologies if my question sounds childish. Please explain the
> following code to me. I found it at the beginning of a script.
>
> if (isset($_REQUEST['GLOBALS']) OR isset($_FILES['GLOBALS']))
> {
> echo 'Request tainting attempted.';
> exit;
> }
>
> Also, I'll be very grateful if someone can suggest me a good reference
> on predefined variables. (The one included in PHP Manual didn't help
> much.)
>
> Thanks a lot.

Its saying if $globals has a value then exit the script, ie. its trying
to prevent people from setting values themselves.. google has many
great php resources.

Flamer.

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