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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] About dropping magic_quotes in 5.3 (was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.7 + magic_quotes_gpc broken)
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

As much as I hate the feature, I am not certain that is a good idea in  
a minor release.


On 8-Dec-08, at 2:38 PM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 20:15, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
>>
>>> In my opinion a big change like droping something that was and  
>>> still used by
>>> many people are a "security measure", albeit a poor one is  
>>> something that can
>>> only be done in a major release.
>>
>> I concur.
>
> Like I said, we simply cannot nuke it. But we can however turn it off
> by default.
>
> -Hannes

Ilia Alshanetsky