Re: About dropping magic_quotes in 5.3 (was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.7 + magic_quotes_gpc broken)

From: Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:35:35 +0000
Subject: Re: About dropping magic_quotes in 5.3 (was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.7 + magic_quotes_gpc broken)
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On 8 Dec 2008, at 08:18, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 16:57, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net> wrote:
When dropping magic_quotes the hosting company can do one of two things: a) not update to 5.3 so we either have to maintain 5.2 for some time or let them have problems
+1
We cannot simply nuke a feature that was once upon a time sold as a security feature, and is still enabled by default, just "out of the blue".
Agreed, going from on by default to removed just feels odd. Regards, Philip

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