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Date:      Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:14:56 +0000
From:      Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: why does this simple counter fail?
Message-ID:  <4D8A2A90.4040407@ifdnrg.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110323164504.GA25317@thought.org>
References:  <20110323164504.GA25317@thought.org>

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On 23/03/2011 16:45, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	Guys,
>
> 	Can any of you php hackers tell me why this simple self-hacked
> 	counter bomb?
>
> 	appended.
>
> 	tia.
$file doesn't look to be set anywhere

if its a web script ( as opposed to cmd line cli) tyhen its probably 
passed as a POST or GET variable.,

register_globals needs to be on for this variable to be auto set,

if the form is submitted via POST,  change script to:

$directory="./countdir/";
$file=$_POST['file'];
....

if the form is submitted via GET (you'd see the file=variable in the address bar),  change script to:

$directory="./countdir/";
$file=$_GET['file'];
....

Of course you want to sanitise this $file variable so that it can't be hacked.



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