On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 9:55:57 -0600, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:48:17 +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:26:53AM -0300, Lic. Martin Marques wrote:
>>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
>>> >If you tell people to switch that off, they might get problems with
>>> >other scripts.
>>>
>>> They can always have diferent settings for diferent directory
>> definitions
>>> in the web server.
>>>
>>> As I said before, magic_quotes is a very bad thing, and security must
>>> come from the programmer, not an automatic quoter.
>> 
>> I absolutely agree with you here. But the programmer should also make
>> his software user/admin friendly and I don\\\'t think the 5 lines
>> workaround needed to fix this problem are too much hassle for the
>> coder...
>> 
>> You will have more problems telling website-\\\"admins\\\" (which usually
>> don\\\'t know a bit of webserver administration) to change a PHP setting -
>> just for this subdirectory - been there, done that ;).
> 
> In drupal the distributed .htaccess has the following:
> 
>  # Override PHP settings. More exist in sites/default/settings.php, but
>  # the following cannot be changed at runtime.
>  <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
>    php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
>    php_value register_globals                0
>    php_value session.auto_start              0
>  </IfModule>

\"...to disable magic quotes completely, without the need to adjust your 
php.ini file or (re)process the user\'s input. [...] in the .htaccess file, add 
a line\"

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php#61589

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