Re: Re[4]: [PHP] Help needed with Curl

From:	Daniel Brown	Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:13:38 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re[4]: [PHP] Help needed with Curl
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On 7/24/07, Richard Davey <rich@corephp.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Daniel, Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 3:57:11 PM, you wrote: On 7/24/07, Richard Davey <rich@corephp.co.uk> wrote:
*Never* put PHP DLLs into the Windows System folder. It's neither required, nor sensible. Keep them where they belong - in your PHP folder.
    Heh.... which is why I prefer to stick with what I know.... which
is not so much with Windows servers, to be honest. It's not just you - there are "tutorials" and mailing list posts all over the net that impart the same advice. So I'm not surprised that you recommended it, you probably picked it up as a byproduct of someone else's flawed recommendation long ago :) As a Linux person - think of the absolute *last* possible root only place that you could ever stick a PHP library into, with the most risk to security possible. That is the equivalent of C:\Windows\System.

/me nods. Makes perfect sense to me when you put it that way. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107