MySQL Reference Manual for version 4.0.18.

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5.3.4 Security Issues with LOAD DATA LOCAL

The LOAD DATA statement can load a file that is located on the server host, or, when the LOCAL keyword is specified, a file that is located on the client host.

There are two possible problems with supporting the LOCAL version of LOAD DATA statements:

To deal with these potential security issues, we changed how LOAD DATA LOCAL is handled as of MySQL 3.23.49 and MySQL 4.0.2 (4.0.13 on Windows):


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