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Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data?

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On 28-07-2013 01:50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 27/07/13 21:59, Luuk wrote:
>> On 27-07-2013 22:25, Pierre Jaury wrote:
>>> Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:45:50 +0200, Luuk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 27-07-2013 11:31, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> The target is to create and store thumbnail PNG images in a Mysql
>>>>>> table.
>>>>
>>>>> As far as the subject goes, i would say:
>>>>> DO NOT TOUCH binary data.....
>>>>> Simply store it, or not, in your database.....
>>>>
>>>> Is it trying to store binary data as character data, or does it
>>>> think it
>>>> needs to string escape binary data types?
>>>
>>> Escaping strings is a concept only useful when building request strings
>>> that include user supplied data. It does avoid concatenating strings
>>> whith special/control characters that may interfere with the original
>>> language. There is no need to escape strings if you do not embed
>>> them inside your request string (eg. if you use bound parameters).
>>>
>>> This is true when dealing with SQL (write prepared statements without
>>> including any user supplied data, then bind the parameters), bash
>>> commands that only require one exec (use exec* instead of system), and
>>> pretty much in any case you construct interpreted code at runtime.
>>>
>>> Data sent to MySQL as bound parameters in prepared statements is
>>> shipped as is, it not escaped or processed in any way before the
>>> MySQL API structures are filled with it. Now, for your binary data
>>> to be handled as is by the MySQL server (and skip the charset
>>> processing), the parameter must be bound as MYSQL_TYPE_BLOB, which
>>> you may control when using bind_param.
>>>
>>> See http://fr2.php.net/manual/fr/mysqli-stmt.bind-param.php and the
>>> "b" (as in binary) flag for details.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, the code i posted earlier in this thread is also posted here:
>> http://pastebin.com/5D8ZGEhy
>>
>> Whn using 'bind_param' i choose to use 's' as in string, and not 'b'
>> for blob/binary.
>>
>> The code stores an exact (binary) copy of the file in a MySQL database.
>>
>> When the 's' in bind_param is changed to 'b', it does not store an
>> exact binary copy of the file....
>>
> Why not?
>
>> [root@test]> select id, left(hex(image),64) from testpng where id=1;
>> +----+------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> | id | left(hex(image),64)                                              |
>> +----+------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> |  1 | 89504E470D0A1A0A0000000D49484452000000090000000A0806000000660574 |
>> +----+------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>>
>> [root@test]> \! hexdump -C upArrow.png | head -2
>> 00000000  89 50 4e 47 0d 0a 1a 0a  00 00 00 0d 49 48 44 52
>> |.PNG........IHDR|
>> 00000010  00 00 00 09 00 00 00 0a  08 06 00 00 00 66 05 74
>> |.............f.t|
>> [root@test]>
>>
>> I'm not sure how
>> "Data sent to MySQL as bound parameters in prepared statements is
>> shipped as is, it not escaped or processed in any way before the
>> MySQL API structures are filled with it."
>> and
>> "Now, for your binary data to be handled as is by the MySQL server
>> (and skip the charset processing), the parameter must be bound as
>> MYSQL_TYPE_BLOB, which you may control when using bind_param."
>> relate to each other...
>>
> The meaning is clear: provided you tell the API what it is to expect, it
> will not be processed in ways that do not apply to the object type.
>
> But you contradict that, by saying that binding it as binary  does in
> fact get processed and only as a string will it be passed unaltered.
>

I was not trying to contradict anything. I was reading the post (from 
Pierre) and was under the impression that i SHOULD use 'b' in bind_param.

I was using 's' in bind_param, and my testprog works ok

These 2 lines made /me confused ;)

> I'd really like to know why..
>

Me likes to know why to

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Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-07-27 18:38 +0000
  Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Pierre Jaury <pierre@jaury.eu> - 2013-07-27 22:25 +0200
    Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-07-27 22:59 +0200
      Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-28 00:50 +0100
        Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-07-28 17:44 +0200
          Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Pierre Jaury <pierre@jaury.eu> - 2013-07-28 18:01 +0200
            Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-28 17:43 +0100
            Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-07-28 20:31 +0200
          Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-28 17:39 +0100
            Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Pierre Jaury <pierre@jaury.eu> - 2013-07-28 19:56 +0200
              Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-28 19:14 +0100
                Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-07-28 15:10 -0400
            Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-07-28 21:13 -0400
    Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-28 00:46 +0100
    Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-07-27 19:56 -0400
      Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Pierre Jaury <pierre@jaury.eu> - 2013-07-28 03:55 +0200
        Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-07-27 22:11 -0400
  Re: is mysqli_real_escape_string bullet proof with binary data? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-07-27 19:58 -0400

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