ID: 27438
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: php_bug_27438 at garykeith dot com
-Status: Open
+Status: Assigned
Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System: All
PHP Version: Irrelevant
-Assigned To:
+Assigned To: kennyt
New Comment:
We could create a new manual page detailing the process of stripping
characters PHP can't handle ('!'). Replace the (2?) links to the site
with links to that page, which would contain the site's URL beneath a
warning. Since that Yahoo! entry is the only bug-provoking one, even
users would find it easy to clean up the file.
Happy flaming!
Previous Comments:
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[2004-02-29 20:36:17] php_bug_27438 at garykeith dot com
I sent you an e-mail. As with every other PHP team member I've tried to
contact I've had no reply as yet.
You need not worry about the link I asked be removed.
If I detect an HTTP_REFERER from php.net I simply redirect the user
agent back from whence it came.
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[2004-02-29 15:23:46] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's a known fact that users are impolite, we have lots of experience
with that and it's not something neither you or we can "fix". But it is
possible to just ignore them, and that's simply what we do.
Now, as your file does not crash the system (it just gives a warning
when starting the webserver) we will get more bugreports about it,
which is a *good* thing for us as it might pressure fixes in our way of
handling the browscap.ini file. We can not remove the link to your
site, unless there is an alternative browscap.ini file as we don't want
to stop the get_browser() function from being implemented in PHP. So I
want to suggest that you remove the wrong information on your site (ie,
it does not crash, and *we* were not impolite to you and just tried to
find a solution) and I'm sure that our fixes for handling the
browscap.ini file are being implemented shortly (as there is already a
patch).
(And please don't reopen this bug report, as we will just bogus it
again)
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[2004-02-29 15:07:42] php_bug_27438 at garykeith dot com
I have always asked people who report PHP bugs to file a bug report
with PHP. I cannot make them do so. But the simple fact is I've had to
make constant adjustments to my browscap.ini file to accommodate PHP
over the years and PHP users especially have not been very polite about
it. I am a very patient person and it took me this long to finally
loose my patience. I attempted to contact the person who first
contacted me asking permission to use my file and got no reply. If I
couldn't get any reply privately then I had no choice but to go public
where the situation could not be avoided.
What I'm asking is not unreasonable. All I want is to have the link
removed from your documentation page otherwise PHP users are going to
download a file that as of today in 4.3.x is guaranteed to crash your
server. That does neither one of us any good. So just remove the link
and you'll never hear from me again. I promise.
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[2004-02-29 14:58:37] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, but I have to say that you're behaving like an ass. For the past
three years we didn't hear anything at all about files being broken,
and then suddenly since two weeks ago we treated you bad for those
three years? Sorry, but I don't really understand that.
What I also don't understand is that you just say "Don't file problems
about PHP here, do that at http://bugs.php.net";. That way you don't get
the "shit" about our bugs, and we know that there are actually
problems. Wouldn't that be the easiest thing for both you AND us?
That said, I don't think we should remove the link to your site as our
users can still find the browscap.ini file there. (Feel free to mail me
privately if you want, I don't think this discussion belongs in this
bugsystem).
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[2004-02-29 14:45:52] php_bug_27438 at garykeith dot com
It does crash PHP unless you have modded my file to prevent it. The
simple fact is get_browser() does not work the same way browscap.dll
does and until it does get_browser() is broken, will continue to crash
PHP and cause me nothing but grief.
Why do you have to argue with me about this?
There is a link in your documentation to my website and I do not want
PHP to link to my website anymore. Please remove the link.
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