memcached in not so friendly environment

[David Phillips]

On 2/8/07, Brian Moon <brianm at dealnews.com> wrote:
> Hmm, a nice feature of the PECL client might to be allow for a host(s)
> and port to be configured in php.ini/apache conf.  That way, you could
> set the host(s) and port per VirtualHost in the Apache conf.  You can do
> this with mysql user/pass/server etc.  But, I think that just sets the
> default and the user could override it.  This would be useful for
> locking a VirtualHost into a given memcached pool.

This would only be secure if the user had no other socket access (PHP
socket support, Perl CGI scripts, security holes, etc.).