Discussions of secure PHP coding. Security in software is important, so don't be afraid to ask. And when answering: be anal. Nitpick. No security vulnerability is too small.
I've password protected a directory in my site, but I want a php script to be able to access it to download a file from it. How can I do this? Here is the download script:
PHP isn't impeded by password protection on directories, in the .htpasswd sense, of the protection as it makes a local, system level request for the data, or should be, rather.