Re: installing HTTP_Request

At 06:26 PM 12/5/2007 -0600, Gregory Beaver wrote:

You are also using a very old version of PHP, one that has many known security vulnerabilities, that may be of greater concern than the upgrading of PEAR, were I in your shoes. As for making it possible to upgrade from 1.3.2, it is possible, but the problem is that 1.3.2 has so many serious bugs in it, it is not capable of doing an upgrade properly, and will leave your system corrupted. This is not something that can be fixed, except by upgrading.

Well all I know is that 4 freshly set up dedicated servers all had PEAR 1.3.2 installed on them by default, so I figured that meant it was quite common out there. Although I don't know, since it sounds like you don't get this question often! If enough people ask the question maybe there could be an additional page on the "Installation" section of the wiki about how to do an upgrade from 1.3.2 (which would really be a complete un-install followed by an install).

Incidentally, the majority of machines - active machines - on the internet are using PEAR version 1.5.0 or newer, in fact upwards of 99.8%, based on the apache server logs at pear.php.net, so the fact that you are using 1.3.2 puts you in a rather severe minority :).

I suspect your server log stats might be biased by the fact that anybody using version 1.3.2 would get an error and stop using the site immediately :)

        -Bennett