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 19:43:47 +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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As much as I hate the feature, I am not certain that is a good idea in a minor release. On 8-Dec-08, at 2:38 PM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 20:15, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
In my opinion a big change like droping something that was and still used by many people are a "security measure", albeit a poor one is something that can only be done in a major release.
I concur.
Like I said, we simply cannot nuke it. But we can however turn it off by default. -Hannes
Ilia Alshanetsky

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