Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP] HTTP 1.1 keep-alive support in ext/soap/php_http.c ? (fwd)

2007-08-19 Thread Al Baker
Keep-alive support in SOAP is often problematic as most SOAP frameworks were originally developed under the assumptions that the SOAP HTTP binding would be HTTP 1.0, which is no longer the case. Since RPC SOAP operations are not like document downloading in the strict HTTP sense, frameworks

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

2007-09-09 Thread Al Baker
Comments inline On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:07 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Its been about a week since RFS for features to go into 5.3 has gone out and while there was not a flood of ideas there is a substantial list of key changes people would like to go into this release. I've

Re: [PHP-DEV] allow_url_fopen should be INI_ALL

2005-06-28 Thread Al Baker
There is nothing wrong with fopen or include, and PHP isn't instrinically broken here. The only thing intrinsic about PHP that has anything to do with these security areas is how PHP is powerfully simple - lowering the bar for adoption. When you do this, you pick up newbie programmers who code

RE: [PHP-DEV] allow_url_fopen should be INI_ALL

2005-06-29 Thread Al Baker
Parameter validation is a general thing done for security, whether that be if you're using a variable in an include, database credentials, connecting to a web service, etc. You need to make sure that those basic conditions have a highly controlled set of values, not only for security but to make

Re: [PHP-DEV] YANP (Yet Another Namespace Proposal)

2005-07-08 Thread Al Baker
I think we're trying to boil the ocean here, and in doing so failing to see both the problems that need to be solved, and the possible solutions. I'd like to break things down a little bit here to address what the real problem is with a lack of namespaces in PHP. In my eyes, there are really

Re: [PHP-DEV] YANP (Yet Another Namespace Proposal)

2005-07-08 Thread Al Baker
in Jessie's proposal. Thanks! Al On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 20:25 -0400, Al Baker wrote: I think we're trying to boil the ocean here, and in doing so failing to see both the problems that need to be solved, and the possible solutions. I'd like to break things down a little bit here to address what

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist

2005-08-14 Thread Al Baker
I agree with Ilia that removing these would help drastically reduce the security holes present in PHP applications and generally improve the image of PHP security. Or an alternative way to say that, is it would reduce the FUD being slung at PHP from ignorant people saying PHP is a security

Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting throwing a fatal error

2005-08-23 Thread Al Baker
Generally speaking, many users want to be able to catch every error possible. If there is an error condition that happens, they want to be able to catch it. If it's not possible to catch it in script, perhaps an extension or some other strategy needs to be documented for certain error

[PHP-DEV] PDO and SQLite Compatibility

2006-05-20 Thread Al Baker
Hi, While working on a large embedded project using PHP and SQLite, I ran into some compatibility issues where the sqlite guys broke file compatibility on a dot release. The SQLite situation is: - SQLite 3.3.x can read and write any SQLite 3.x file - SQLite 3.2.x cannot work with SQLite 3.3.0+

Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO and SQLite Compatibility

2006-05-22 Thread Al Baker
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 17:27 -0400, Wez Furlong wrote: On 5/20/06, Al Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans for upgrading the SQLite driver? Yes. We didn't want to do this in a point release of PHP because of BC concerns. I think moving to 3.3 would be more favorable to BC

Re: [PHP-DEV] is_a() vs. instanceof

2004-08-12 Thread Al Baker
I agree, that's the exact behavior I would like as well and what most people would expect. Al On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 23:52 -0400, Hans Lellelid wrote: Alan Knowles wrote: I think he's referening to something like this (which is common in pear): $x = $someobj-somemethod(); if ($x

[PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-27 Thread Al Baker
Hi, I'm trying to find status on the multibyte support in PHP. The manual shows the functions in mbstring to be experimental and it's hard to find evidence of how stable it really is. Is this natively supported in PHP after 4.3.x? Thanks, Al -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-27 Thread Al Baker
wrote: Hi, On 2004/08/28, at 5:15, Al Baker wrote: I'm trying to find status on the multibyte support in PHP. The manual shows the functions in mbstring to be experimental and it's hard to find evidence of how stable it really is. Which manual says that mbstring is still

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-28 Thread Al Baker
So, all the mb_* functions will have the experimental removed? I see a few that still have it, or is that just the mirrors not up to date yet? Al On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:35 +1000, Dave Barr wrote: Derick Rethans wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Al Baker wrote: Thanks for the confirmation

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-30 Thread Al Baker
to the way PHP5 handles i18n? [1] http://www.zend.com/zend/zend-engine-summary.php Thanks, Adam On 30/08/2004, at 2:11 PM, Derick Rethans wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Al Baker wrote: So, all the mb_* functions will have the experimental removed? I see a few that still have

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-31 Thread Al Baker
ASAP if it's caused by my option. regards, Masaki Fujimoto The Message From Al Baker on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:13:06 -0500: What is the --enable-zend-multibyte configuration option used for then? I've noticed a few bug reports where this option was the culprit. Al On Mon, 2004

Re: [PHP-DEV] native events in PHP

2004-08-31 Thread Al Baker
There's nothing stopping someone from writing their own classes for dispatching and handling events and implementing callbacks today... Are you suggesting something built into PHP like the Java system event queue that people can define their own dispatchers and handlers for? The QT example below

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-09-01 Thread Al Baker
found the encoding related bug again (sigh...) http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29518 how do you think about this? it's worth fixing? or you think this is just a bogus one? The Message From Al Baker on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:10:41 -0500: The bugs I saw were just the result of a quick