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That's not a solution. You can read more about XSRF and how to protect against it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery


I have my phpMyAdmin installed only on my secure site, behind HTTP authentication as well.


If you're using HTTP Basic auth, your browser will happily cache the credentials and re-submit them every time when asked for the same server/realm combination. You'll need to restart your browser to clear the cached auth data.


The reason CSRF is scary is that it works against those defences.




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