Bug #17669: magic_quotes_runtime enables at random

From: phpbugs_p@ter.dk Operating system: Linux + FreeBSD PHP version: 4.1.2 PHP Bug Type: PHP options/info functions Bug description: magic_quotes_runtime enables at random This bug may be related to #10197 and #10290. I have a PHP-solution hosted at my ISP. At random - about once per 50 requests - magic_quotes_runtime is enabled and affects e.g. strings returned from socket functions. I have created a simple webpage at: http://trc.dk/magic.php http://trc.dk/magic.phps (source) Reload it a bunch of times and notice that magic_quotes_runtime truely has been enabled. This webpage don't show it, but it in fact does affect strings; it's not just an erroneous output of the magic_quotes_runtime-setting. A helpful shellcommand would be: watch -n 1 "curl http://trc.dk/magic.php 2>/dev/null" ... and break the script when Magic quotes (runtime) indeed shows "1". Please notice that my ISP is using a cluster-based solution; the internal webserver-names is reflected on above webpage. It actually gives us more test-material, since the problem isn't just one wrong configured webserver out of a dozen, but the setting appears and disappears on several of the webservers (maybe all). Some of these webservers run Linux; others run FreeBSD. Both seem to be affected. I have been in contact with the technical department at my ISP, and they are just as puzzled as I am. There shouldn't be any change in the configuration for the different webservers. In all cases PHP is enabled as mod_php for Apache. A phpinfo() is available at: http://trc.dk/info.php (although a couple of reloads might be required to get information from the right webserver) - Peter Brodersen -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17669&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17669&r=globals