What the hey is Sentinel? Do I need its functionality?

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LonelyProgrammer
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What the hey is Sentinel? Do I need its functionality?

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Hi all,

I am doing some simple website to paypal e-commerce website and have been looking for security issues. An online acquaintance told me about a program called Sentinel which is a 'must-have' for all PHP-based sites, and AFAIK, he demonstrated to me he's able to know the IP address of my web-host by one of the URL of my image.

How important is this? Does it helps against mysql injections or cross-site scripting?

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Attilitus
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Re: What the hey is Sentinel? Do I need its functionality?

Post by Attilitus »

Do you even know what SQL injection and cross site scripting is?

... Do you even know how to program?

To answer your question: No. You do not need sentinel. What you do need, that you currently lack, is a basic understanding of web development and programming.

Sorry for being an ass, but it had to be said.
LonelyProgrammer
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Re: What the hey is Sentinel? Do I need its functionality?

Post by LonelyProgrammer »

Hey, it's fine. I took the night to read up the sticky thread on security. Thanks for the reply anyway.
erupt
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Re: What the hey is Sentinel? Do I need its functionality?

Post by erupt »

Regardless of whether you apologize for being an ass or not, to be perfectly honest, that's not very constructive. Telling somebody on a programming forum that they don't know how to program instead of giving them a descriptive answer is very counterproductive and pretty much goes against the entire point of this forum.
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