On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Aaron Bannert wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:20:00AM +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:
> > the php configuration directive register_globals defaults to off
> > in PHP 4.2; are you sure it's not just due to misconfiguration?
>
> Yeah, that was the problem.
>
> I'm sure I could go look back in the logs for why this change
> occured, but the part of me that spent *way* too long on this
> has to ask: Why did this change? Doesn't this violate the
> Principle of Least Astonishment?

Yes it does.

Even the most advanced users get bitten by this.  When 4.2 finally goes
out the door we will have an onslaught of these.  I am definitely not
looking forward to it.

-Rasmus


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