Now here is something very interesting. I was heading over to Ask Shane this morning for my daily read of Shane’s site and I encountered a simple Javascript error in IE. Up comes the error dialog - usually, I just hit “No” I do not wish to debug, but since Shane is one of my good friends, I wanted to see what the problem might be on his site. That being said, I hit “Yes” and my good old trusty Visual Interdev debugger fired up.

I expected to see a JavaScript error from Ask Shane, something trivial usually are those fun javascript errors - but this one was very interesting. Take a look at what I saw:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘g3db3.mybloglog.com’ (4) in /home/myblogtrack/public_html/includes/conn_slave_g3db3.php on line 3

So it looks like MyBlogLog exposed their full path in this error to connect to one of their slave databases. So is this a security hole on their end? hmmm - Shoemoney, what do you think? I would think it’s definitely not a good thing, but in doing my part, I am going to ping mybloglog about it….

- cheers! Matthew