AmigaActive (1549/2347)

From:Neil Bothwick
Date:20 Mar 2001 at 15:35:52
Subject:Re: PHP password

No_good said,

> I've been working on a little project which uses PHP. The amigactive
> tutorial gave me a good start, and I've learnt lots throug trial and
> error. At the moment I'm using the login script example in the mag.
> I had to change it slightly but it is more or less the same. The
> problem I have is that when I go on to the next page, the password is
> displayed in the URL which is obviously not secure and goes against
> the goal of the project.

Put method="post" in the FORM tag. If you use method="get", or nothing
as this is the default, the form data is appended to the URL.

Neil



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