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Re: Option to disable php://filter URL



Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> A good point.  Did you file a bug upstream?  Is the issue that you think
> it's unsafe and they think it's a feature?

Obviously PHP offers it as a feature. The problem is that when you look
at existing software, the feature goes way beyond what most developers
expected, hence it generates security problems.

If you lookup php://filter attack with your favourite search engine, you
will find that the topic is discussed a lot.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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