Posted by Steve on 02/23/07 22:19

"Tom" <tom@to.com> wrote in message news:ernfmu0v4n@drn.newsguy.com...
| On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:26:43 -0500, Alan Larsson wrote...
| >
| >Is there a way i can look at the php code that is runnig a site, without
any
| >ind of admin access to the server?
| >
| >
|
| Unless someone found a way to do that on purpose, or had a major
| mis-configuration it usually can't. PHP code is normally parsed by the web
| server, so the only thing the site visitor sees is what the PHP code
generates
| and sends back to them.

not to split hairs, web servers rarely if ever parse anything. the web
server hands off some resources to applications defined to handle
them...then the web server provides the results to the caller, i.e. browser
in most cases.

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