From: Wesley Darlington (wesley at domain yelsew.com)
Date: Mon 13 Aug 2001 - 14:55:19 IST
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 02:44:26PM +0100, Matt.Lemon at domain irishlife.ie wrote:
> If I have MySQL on a seperate server to Apache, are results to a SQL query
> sent in plain text across the network ?
The results are sent unencrypted across the network. They are therefore
sniffable.
Alternatives include tunneling your connection to MySQL through ssh
or using MySQL's support for SSL. (Alluded to in the manual, but not
described in a great deal of depth as far as I can see.)
Wesley.
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