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Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time

From Νίκος <support@superhost.gr>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time
Date 2013-06-17 21:06 +0300
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On 17/6/2013 8:54 μμ, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> Also take care to check the filename you insert - a malicous
> user might cobble together a file name that is actually a SQL
> statement and then do nasty things to your database. I.e. never
> insert values you received from a user without checking them.

Yes in generally user iput validation is needed always, but here here 
the filename being selected is from an html table list of filenames.

But i take it you eman that someone might tried it to pass a bogus 
"filename" value from the url like:

http://superhost.gr/cgi-bin/files.py?filename="Select....."

Si that what you mean?

But the comma inside the execute statement doesn't protect me from such 
actions opposed when i was using a substitute operator?

> I would guess because you forgot the uotes around string
> values in your SQL statement which thus wasn't executed.

i tried you suggestions:

cur.execute('''UPDATE files SET hits = hits + 1, host = %s, lastvisit = 
%s WHERE url = "%s"''', (host, lastvisit, filename) )

seems the same as:

cur.execute('''UPDATE files SET hits = hits + 1, host = %s, lastvisit = 
%s WHERE url = %s''', (host, lastvisit, filename) )

since everything is tripled quoted already what would the difference be 
in "%s" opposed to plain %s ?

-- 
What is now proved was at first only imagined!

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Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Simpleton <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-17 19:39 +0300
  Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-06-17 18:40 +0100
    Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Νίκος <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-17 20:51 +0300
  Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-06-17 17:40 +0000
  Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-06-17 17:54 +0000
    Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Νίκος <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-17 21:06 +0300
      Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-06-17 18:32 +0000
        Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-06-17 19:47 +0100
          Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-06-17 19:16 +0000
            Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-17 20:33 +0000
      Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-17 19:05 +0000
        Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Νίκος <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-17 22:30 +0300
          Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-17 20:26 +0000
            Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-17 20:43 +0000
    Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-06-17 19:30 -0400
      Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Νίκος <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-18 03:25 +0300
  Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-06-17 19:19 +0000
    Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Νίκος <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-17 22:28 +0300
      Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-17 20:39 +0000
        Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-06-17 20:44 +0000
          Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-06-17 20:49 +0000
          Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-06-17 23:22 +0100
            Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Νίκος <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-18 02:11 +0300
              Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-06-17 21:42 -0400
                Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Νίκος <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-18 08:49 +0300
                Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-06-18 19:56 -0400
              Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-06-17 22:01 -0400
  Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-17 23:18 +0000
  Re: Updating a filename's counter value failed each time Νίκος <support@superhost.gr> - 2013-06-18 03:22 +0300

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