[Solar-talk] solar requirements

[Paul M Jones]

On Mar 12, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Clay Loveless wrote:

>
> On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Paul M Jones wrote:
>
>> Right now, the only "hard" requirement on 5.2 is DataFilter, and even
>> that is only because it uses ext/filter for some (not all) of its
>> internals.  I'd be very happy to see code that emulates the ext/
>> filter behavior for those particular internal portions, which would
>> make only 5.1.x the requirement.
>
> ... especially given the latest press that ext/filter is getting over
> at MOPB.
>
> http://www.php-security.org/
>
> Last 3 bugs have been ext/filter related.

This one looks pretty severe:

   <http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-19-2007.html>

Makes me wonder how safe it is to use *anything* from Filter, if they  
have whitespace-trimming problems.



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