Oh boy! As a system administrator there's nothing I like better than yet another mediocre PHP
hack with its own half-baked authentication and authorization system. I have a version of
wordpress kicking around here somewhere but a few months back I ripped out the auth/authz code
and made it respect the authenticated user coming from Apache, which is IMHO the only sane way
to do things.
Posted Nov 19, 2007 23:03 UTC (Mon) by tobor (guest, #36736)
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Don't blame the language for this worse-than-failure design decision.
Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability
Posted Nov 21, 2007 21:21 UTC (Wed) by judas_iscariote (subscriber, #47386)
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not only the authentication system design is horrible...wordpress is a great example of a cool
blog user interface but an horrible, messy, insecure code.
Apache security
Posted Nov 20, 2007 3:08 UTC (Tue) by ccyoung (guest, #16340)
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if you do not trust app security, then apache security is a savior.
nonetheless apache security is not cheap, requiring extra transmission bytes, extra
processing, and (frequently many) extra db reads per page access.