Re: Any PHP gurus out there?

From: Robin Gilks (lus.syglb@camerondiv.com)
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 02:58:55 EEST

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    > Greetings
    >
    > I've recently updated my system and am now using php 4.3. This has
    > incorporated a recent change that causes register_global to be off by
    > default and as a result it has broken the webconvers (ww convers access
    > through a web page gateway) scripts I wrote a few years back.
    >
    > I've managed to get all the global variable handling stuff sorted out
    > (with a sprinkling of $_POST and $_GET acesses as required!!) but I'm
    > finding that in either the file or socket handling there is a very large
    > delay (minutes on occation).
    >
    > When I get home tonite I'll post what I have to my website (look under the
    > personal pages for g8ecj) in case anyone knows of a "standard fix" that
    > I've missed in my browsing of php.net :-))
    >

    I've found the major problem at last - there is a bug in feof() handling
    on non-blocking streams that causes it to hang for the timeout time. By
    using stream_get_meta_data and testing the eof status I've got round it.

    The suggestions of turning on register_global in php.ini, although
    appreciated, are totally against what I was trying to do which was fix the
    scripts so they would be more secure (which is why the change happened in
    the first place!!).

    Many thanks for the replies.. 

    -- 
Robin Gilks zl3rob/g8ecj
Internet: terhi.victor@logonet.com    http://www.gilks.org

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