[mapserver-users] Error messages contain private info

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jochen Topf wrote:
> When using Mapserver with a database and there is an error connecting to
> the database the error message sent to the client contains the database
> connect string including the password! Thats never a good idea. Can this
> be changed somehow?

Jochen,

I would suggest you review:

   http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-18.html

I believe this has been implemented since roughly MapServer 5.0.

Best regards,
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