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31 | <td><h1>CodeIgniter User Guide Version 2.1.3</h1></td> | |
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57 | ||
58 | <h1>Security</h1> | |
59 | ||
60 | <p>This page describes some "best practices" regarding web security, and details | |
61 | CodeIgniter's internal security features.</p> | |
62 | ||
63 | ||
64 | <h2>URI Security</h2> | |
65 | ||
66 | <p>CodeIgniter is fairly restrictive regarding which characters it allows in your URI strings in order to help | |
67 | minimize the possibility that malicious data can be passed to your application. URIs may only contain the following: | |
68 | </p> | |
69 | ||
70 | <ul> | |
71 | <li>Alpha-numeric text</li> | |
72 | <li>Tilde: ~ </li> | |
73 | <li>Period: .</li> | |
74 | <li>Colon: :</li> | |
75 | <li>Underscore: _</li> | |
76 | <li>Dash: -</li> | |
77 | </ul> | |
78 | ||
79 | <h2>Register_globals</h2> | |
80 | ||
81 | <p>During system initialization all global variables are unset, except those found in the $_GET, $_POST, and $_COOKIE arrays. The unsetting | |
82 | routine is effectively the same as register_globals = off.</p> | |
83 | ||
84 | <a name="error_reporting"></a> | |
85 | <h2>error_reporting</h2> | |
86 | ||
87 | <p> | |
88 | In production environments, it is typically desirable to disable PHP's | |
89 | error reporting by setting the internal error_reporting flag to a value of 0. This disables native PHP | |
90 | errors from being rendered as output, which may potentially contain | |
91 | sensitive information. | |
92 | </p> | |
93 | ||
94 | <p> | |
95 | Setting CodeIgniter's <kbd>ENVIRONMENT</kbd> constant in index.php to a | |
96 | value of '<kbd>production</kbd>' will turn off these errors. In development | |
97 | mode, it is recommended that a value of '<kbd>development</kbd>' is used. | |
98 | More information about differentiating between environments can be found | |
99 | on the <a href="environments.html">Handling Environments</a> page. | |
100 | </p> | |
101 | ||
102 | <h2>magic_quotes_runtime</h2> | |
103 | ||
104 | <p>The magic_quotes_runtime directive is turned off during system initialization so that you don't have to remove slashes when | |
105 | retrieving data from your database.</p> | |
106 | ||
107 | <h1>Best Practices</h1> | |
108 | ||
109 | <p>Before accepting any data into your application, whether it be POST data from a form submission, COOKIE data, URI data, | |
110 | XML-RPC data, or even data from the SERVER array, you are encouraged to practice this three step approach:</p> | |
111 | ||
112 | <ol> | |
113 | <li>Filter the data as if it were tainted.</li> | |
114 | <li>Validate the data to ensure it conforms to the correct type, length, size, etc. (sometimes this step can replace step one)</li> | |
115 | <li>Escape the data before submitting it into your database.</li> | |
116 | </ol> | |
117 | ||
118 | <p>CodeIgniter provides the following functions to assist in this process:</p> | |
119 | ||
120 | <ul> | |
121 | ||
122 | <li><h2>XSS Filtering</h2> | |
123 | ||
124 | <p>CodeIgniter comes with a Cross Site Scripting filter. This filter looks for commonly | |
125 | used techniques to embed malicious Javascript into your data, or other types of code that attempt to hijack cookies | |
126 | or do other malicious things. The XSS Filter is described <a href="../libraries/security.html">here</a>. | |
127 | </p> | |
128 | </li> | |
129 | ||
130 | <li><h2>Validate the data</h2> | |
131 | ||
132 | <p>CodeIgniter has a <a href="../libraries/form_validation.html">Form Validation Class</a> that assists you in validating, filtering, and prepping | |
133 | your data.</p> | |
134 | </li> | |
135 | ||
136 | <li><h2>Escape all data before database insertion</h2> | |
137 | ||
138 | <p>Never insert information into your database without escaping it. Please see the section that discusses | |
139 | <a href="../database/queries.html">queries</a> for more information.</p> | |
140 | ||
141 | </li> | |
142 | ||
143 | </ul> | |
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