Information leak

This is not a bug but done by design to improve performance.

This has also bee bought up many times before if you do a search of the forum.

Also in the last topic about this ljamal posted a query you can use that I think it should not cause a performance hit as if you would call the permissions function for every topic.... I've haven't yet seen the mod tho and I don't know how it works but I think ljamal's idea is the best way to fix this...

At the present time it will be left as it is becuase the query to get it to run sucessfully was so long and had so many subquries it ment that if you had over around 50 posts in your forum the page took almost a minute to load.

The query in the post that fernan82 mentions that doesn't decrease performance only works if you have values entered into the permissions table for that forum otherwise the query completly fails to return any results, it also over looks the generic forum permisions and also over looks any permisions on that forum for that perticular user and so doesn't work very well.

Incase you still want to try this query it's in a post at:-

http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=2165

But beaware that you need to enter group permisions for each forum and it will over look generic and user permisions.


Edited by -boRg-

I shall have a look at the stored procedure that you mention.