# Bug 38245: magic_quotes_gpc and $_FILES

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/30248
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/30248
- Started by Tim Starling on 2007-06-19T10:19:33+00:00
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## #30248 — Tim Starling — 2007-06-19T10:19:33+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/30248#30248

Can someone explain the closing comment on this bug report to me?

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38245

Surely in a addslashes-escaped string, \\ is the Windows directory
separator, not \.

The bug clearly describes irreversible corruption of upload filenames by
PHP. I just had a report of it in a MediaWiki context, and I can't
believe that it wouldn't be considered a bug.

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