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Wait, this is known as a blind SQLi, and it's not so blind. You can still use timing to get the info you need one bit at a time. This may be slow, but it's doable without triggering any DB errors, so you have time.


people come up with the darndest things.


Yeah, it's a cool trick and not obvious. I think when I said SQL injection gets you the schema, I was recalling some faint old memory from a security course without remembering why this is doable.




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