Re: pre-screening pages before served?

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Daevid Vincent<daevid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: oxygenet32@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:oxygenet32@xxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Chris Payne
>> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 12:58 PM
>> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re:  pre-screening pages before served?
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Per Jessen<per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Chris Payne wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi everyone,
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible to have the system pre-screen a page before
>> it is sent
>> >> to a user?  What I mean is, if someone requests index.php
>> could I have
>> >> a script scan the file before I serves it?
>> >
>> > Yes, apache has an output filter that can be set up as the
>> last stage
>> > just before serving a page.
>> >
>> >
>> > /Per
>> >
>> > --
>> > Per Jessen, Zürich (19.8°C)
>>
>> Thank you, i'll look into that this evening as it would solve some
>> problems i've had.  I want my system to check local copies of a page
>> against a cache I have of the same page and if they are different it
>> won't serve the page and will automatically send me a copy of the page
>> via email and restore it to what it should be.  A way of protecting
>> against attacks.  Just 1 stage but I want to be pro-active and always
>> be ontop of things.
>
> Really? This is an actual problem for you? It sounds too me that you have a
> malicious user on your server and if so, fire them. If you suspect you've
> been hacked from externally, then I would format and re-install -- or use a
> backup from a known good date. I've been coding PHP since 1996, and have
> NEVER heard of a man-in-the-middle attack like this. It just sounds like you
> have other problems and this isn't a solution, it's a band-aid.
>
> http://daevid.com
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Sounds like XSS to me. Likely a better validation and sanitation
routine would help to clear the issue
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Bastien

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