[PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request: epte

2005-11-10 Thread Erich Enke
Helgi (cvsuser dufuz) said to apply for an account here. I'm taking over maintainance of the following packages: pear/SQL_Parser pear/DBA pear/DBA_Relational -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Andi Gutmans wrote: > I personally think it can hurt the PHP project to have expose_php turned > off by default. A lot of PHP's push has been thanks to the Netcraft > numbers. I think a PHP worm would do far more harm, but then again I am not an marketing expert :-). IMHO the push behind PHP is du

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > If someone asks me a PHP question on a newsgroup or forum, and I need to > know their version, I ask them for it. If they don't know how, I tell > them to run php -V Too true, in most cases you'd actually want to see their phpinfo() page, since settings can often expl

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Jani Taskinen
Leave it alone. I vote we just drop this discussion. :) We have lot of more important things to talk about than about something like this.. --Jani On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Wez Furlong wrote: Turning off expose_php is just security by obscurity; a determined hacker can still probe

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Wez Furlong
Turning off expose_php is just security by obscurity; a determined hacker can still probe for problems even if that setting is turned off. My vote is to leave it as-is; leave it to the administrator to decide if they want to turn it off. --Wez. On 11/10/05, Marcus Boerger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Marcus Boerger wrote: agreed, also we are doing very much work on security. Thus new and regular updated systems shouldn#t have a problem with exposing this. And we cannot do anything for unmaintained systems anyway. Therefore i think we or any user should not be ashamed or fear having php bein

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Andi, agreed, also we are doing very much work on security. Thus new and regular updated systems shouldn#t have a problem with exposing this. And we cannot do anything for unmaintained systems anyway. Therefore i think we or any user should not be ashamed or fear having php being exposed.

RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Andi Gutmans
I personally think it can hurt the PHP project to have expose_php turned off by default. A lot of PHP's push has been thanks to the Netcraft numbers. Andi At 10:56 AM 11/10/2005, Wolfgang Drews wrote: > > I don't think it would reduce the number of attacks turning the > > version information

RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Wolfgang Drews
sorry list, this discussion is going into a totally wrong direction. To make my point clear once again: >> it's all just a question of user-perception! << there is definitely NO NEED to discuss any security-items in this place - instead i wanted to make the right people think about chang

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Peter Brodersen wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:08:29 -0500, in php.internals [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ilia Alshanetsky) wrote: I don't think it would reduce the number of attacks turning the version information off. But it would be more cumbersome to help people with php issues as the php version is n

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Brodersen
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:08:29 -0500, in php.internals [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ilia Alshanetsky) wrote: >> I don't think it would reduce the number of attacks turning the >> version information off. But it would be more cumbersome to help >> people with php issues as the php version is not directly avail

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Markus Fischer wrote: > Wolfgang Drews wrote: > I don't think it would reduce the number of attacks turning the version information off. But it would be more cumbersome to help people with php issues as the php version is not directly available. >>> >>> >>> Right, that was my point

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Markus Fischer
Wolfgang Drews wrote: I don't think it would reduce the number of attacks turning the version information off. But it would be more cumbersome to help people with php issues as the php version is not directly available. Right, that was my point too. yes, but in the end it is more a problem

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
The expose_php setting is an option, something each admin can make their own mind upon. Some will prefer not to waste bandwidth and tell the world what they are running, while others prefer to advertise PHP. Either approach is fine, but from security perspective you want to tell a potential attacke

RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Wolfgang Drews
> > I don't think it would reduce the number of attacks turning the > > version information off. But it would be more cumbersome to help > > people with php issues as the php version is not directly available. > > Right, that was my point too. yes, but in the end it is more a problem of user-pe

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Peter Brodersen wrote: > Those targeting specific web sites might be able to figure out the > approximate version otherwise. The major version of php could be > determined in a couple of other ways, such as checking what animal > (sorry Thies :-) is present, e.g.: > http://www

Re: [PHP-DEV] LDAP controls in response

2005-11-10 Thread Pierangelo Masarati
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:03 +0200, Jani Taskinen wrote: > Anyway, it might be the time to cleanup the API of this extension > and make it simpler. It's pretty confusing as it is. > The returned arrays are also weird with their "count" fields and such. OK, Jani. I've removed those "

[PHP-DEV] Re: Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Brodersen
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:13:34 +0100, in php.internals [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Wolfgang Drews") wrote: >my suggestion would be, to simply shorten the string that gets >exposed to "php" - and not show any version numbers (or maybe leave >it to the user, say 0 for "no exposure", 1 for "only php" and 2 for

AW: [PHP-DEV] Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Matthias Pigulla
> my suggestion would be, to simply shorten the string that > gets exposed to "php" - and not show any version numbers (or > maybe leave it to the user, say 0 for "no exposure", 1 for > "only php" and 2 for "php with version number". At least it would be interesting to know about the spread of

[PHP-DEV] Expose php: on or off

2005-11-10 Thread Wolfgang Drews
hi list, i just came back from phpconference in frankfurt and had some nice talks there with Ilia and Derick. They told me to send my following thoughts to internals, so that you maybe can find a wise solution for it. as security gets more and more recognized by many people, they do follow all th

Re: [PHP-DEV] Correct use of zend_list_delete

2005-11-10 Thread Wez Furlong
On 11/9/05, Marco Bambini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ZEND_FUNCTION(rsql_disconnect) > { > ... > ZEND_FETCH_RESOURCE2(rsqldb, void*, theConnectionParameter, -1, > kConnIDString, rsql_connection, rsql_pconnection); > if (rsqldb) zend_list_delete(Z_LVAL_PP(theConnectionParame

[PHP-DEV] sockets extension

2005-11-10 Thread Nuno Lopes
Hi, I have made two patches for two open bugs of the sockets extension. I would like to ask if someone can review/commit them: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35062 - bogus warning produced http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=21197 - php_read() doesn't work on windows Thanks, Nuno -- PHP Internals

Re: [PHP-DEV] object-overloading: why not allow recursive calls? (5.1) hey, in zend_object_handlers.c function zend_std_read_property we protect against calling the __get function of an object if

2005-11-10 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Mike, Thies, i can only agree here, we just invented another inconsistency to violate the beloved KISS approach once more for no particular reason. And this also contradicts the arguments we use elsewhere. marcus Thursday, November 10, 2005, 1:35:56 AM, you wrote: > The problem does not