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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:10:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrade cURL extension
From: tom@punkave.com (Tom Boutell)

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Sigh, I could have edited that better, but I think the apology came across
(:

This is still a thing worth fixing.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Tom Boutell <tom@punkave.com> wrote:

> I do see now that at curl did introduce the @ craziness. So it is unfair
> of me to single out PHP for introducing it. I'm not sure if the @ syntax is
> a sneaky feature of the standard C API, but it's definitely a sneaky
> feature of the command line utility.
>
> I did include a comment there when I first opened that bug report,
> proposing a more appropriate and sustainable interface. Documentation
> changes would make it possible to avoid the problem by looking carefully
> for strange "gotchas" in the fine print - but not to actually submit a
> value starting with a @, if, y'know, I wanted to do something crazy-nutty
> like send arbitrary data legal in any other form submission (:
>
> Apologies for hijacking the discussion.
>
> The '@' business does not come from libcurl. Native C libcurl
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi Tom,
>>
>> For one, it is mapped to the libcurl constants and behavior.
>>
>> Also this but report contains clear comment about this issue being a
>> documentation problem, contribution welcome :)
>>
>> If you consider it as something that should be changed, then please
>> feel free to add a comment there as well, or a patch :)
>>
>> But that's not really what we discuss here but the new code proposed
>> by Pierrick.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Tom Boutell <tom@punkave.com> wrote:
>> > I'd sure like a PHP extension that didn't have this obvious and nasty
>> bug:
>> >
>> > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46439
>> >
>> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  I wanted to make this new version available in PHP5.4 but
>> >>> unfortunately I did finish my work when it was already in RC phase.
>> >>> The question now is should we include this new version in PHP5.4.1 or
>> >>> should we wait for PHP 5.5/6/7 or whatever PHP next will be. There is
>> >>> no feature break (AFAIK) so all the previous code should work as
>> >>> expected. You'll find the list of new features attached and the last
>> >>> code in the trunk branch.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Can't you make it also available as pecl extension, which could be
>> built
>> >> on 5.4? This way people could enjoy the benefits of your work without
>> >> stable branch being disrupted and BC problems raised.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
>> >> SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/
>> >> (408)454-6900 ext. 227
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tom Boutell
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Pierre
>>
>> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Tom Boutell
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>


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