Re: Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something about session_start...)
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:25:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something about session_start...) | ||
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Hi!
> I'd just like to add that if we were going to make BC-breaking changes
> to superglobals in PHP 8, we might as well also get rid of the name
> mangling on keys for $_GET, $_POST and $_REQUEST at the same time
That's a good point. We definitely should get rid of this one, it adds
absolutely nothing now. It might expose some security issues though in
bad scripts that rely on mangling for safety while recomposing URLs
(which of course they shouldn't but... sigh...)
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Stas Malyshev
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