This is a patch for one of the tasks on Brion's todo list he sent some days ago. Currently, MediaWiki requires the setting of
register_globals = On
in php.ini, which causes some trouble for people trying to install MediaWiki and which might cause some security problems. The attached patch enables MediaWiki to run with register_globals=Off.
There's a test server running this code at
http://jeluf.mormo.org/wiki/wiki.phtml
Regards,
JeLuF
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:43:28PM +0100, Jens Frank wrote:
This is a patch for one of the tasks on Brion's todo list he sent some days ago. Currently, MediaWiki requires the setting of
register_globals = On
in php.ini, which causes some trouble for people trying to install MediaWiki and which might cause some security problems. The attached patch enables MediaWiki to run with register_globals=Off.
There's a test server running this code at
Tim has found a lot of things I've missed, please wait for a next release of this patch, this one doesn't work properly.
Regards,
JeLuF
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:03:36PM +0100, Jens Frank wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:43:28PM +0100, Jens Frank wrote:
This is a patch for one of the tasks on Brion's todo list he sent some days ago. Currently, MediaWiki requires the setting of
register_globals = On
in php.ini, which causes some trouble for people trying to install MediaWiki and which might cause some security problems. The attached patch enables MediaWiki to run with register_globals=Off.
There's a test server running this code at
Tim has found a lot of things I've missed, please wait for a next release of this patch, this one doesn't work properly.
Fixed lots of thing's I've missed, second try.
Regards,
JeLuF
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