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From: rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc)
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Subject: Re: How to link from html form an external php file login?
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 22:23:14 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <qvcqip$6bl$1@jstuckle.eternal-september.org>,
Jerry Stuckle  <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>The hosting company (not you) *can* configure the host to parse .html 
>files as php code - but if I saw a hosting company do that I would run 
>as fast as I could.  It is a security risk 

Why is that? 

>                                          as well as a performance 
>problem because every page will be parsed for php code, whether it 
>should be or not.

Except if every page has PHP scripts anyway...

Pierre
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