Newsgroups: comp.lang.php
Subject: Re: Risk of stealing php code?
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
"NC"  writes:

> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > I am an ASP, selling hosted software and am concerned that
> > someone will steal my source code and resell it?
> 
> Unless they have access to your PHP files via FTP or Telnet,
> this is a near-impossibility.  There's always a chance that
> one of your files allows a code injection, but those are
> rare in well thought out applications.

You are true. 

One thing besides FTP and Telnet whaich can give sometimes 
access to the PHP source code. 

It is possible to have such HTTP server misconfiguration 
that PHP files are not run thourhg PHP parser, but are 
sent to the user as they are. 
There is a small risk that this kind of thign happens when 
you make major changes to your server configuration or 
you upgade server to newer version that needs somewhat 
different configuration. 

I have seen it happen that user gets the source code 
instead the PHP output..


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