In one of the sections on my “One Year of PHP at Yahoo!” talk I’m giving next week, I mention the security implications of the allow_url_fopen config setting. I recommend that people set allow_url_fopen off, and instead use the libcurl extension to do server-side HTTP fetches. Here’s a comparison of a simple HTTP fetch using […]
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With one week to spare, I’m finished with the slides for “One Year of PHP at Yahoo!,” a talk that I’m giving next week at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland. The finished product is a quite a bit different than the abstract I submitted, but I think it’s a good thing. This talk […]