Re: [imp] All my PGP signed messages marked as BAD

[Simon Wilson]

----- Message from Michael M Slusarz <slus...@horde.org> ---------
   Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:39:31 -0600
   From: Michael M Slusarz <slus...@horde.org>
Subject: Re: [imp] All my PGP signed messages marked as BAD
     To: "imp@lists.horde.org" <imp@lists.horde.org>

Quoting si...@simonandkate.net:

You wouldn't happen to be using an old version of PHP, are you? Like PHP 5.3.3?

stream_get_contents() is buggy in older versions of PHP, IIRC.

michael

Centos 6.4, PHP 5.3.3.

I'd imagine there would be quite a few still running 5.3.3? Particularly as it is the packaged version on RH and derivatives...

michael

See the previous discussion on this topic in the list archives. Namely: just because your distribution uses a certain version of a code interpreter (i.e. PHP), that does not mean you are locked to that version. There are all sorts of 3rd party options. At this point, if you are still running something like PHP 5.3.3 almost 3 years after its release, that is a security risk. (Vendor specific "security patches" do NOT provide adequate support.) There have now been **23** additional bug/security fixes since 5.3.3, and that doesn't account for the fact that PHP 5.4 was long ago released and is stable, and PHP 5.5 is now in the RC stages. Additionally, as mentioned before, we support the PHP 5.3 **API**, not the actual distributed version of PHP 5.3.0 itself. Our documentation doesn't make this distinction because it would be confusing to most users. So obviously there is something wrong with the way stream_get_contents() works on these ancient releases. I'll have to find a workaround, but this is not a high priority since there is nothing wrong with the code itself.

Thanks Michael, and understood.

Your git commit at https://github.com/horde/horde/commit/6a108ab40cbabbbf9a9b7e77d7fee21554c2784d seems to resolve btw.

Simon.

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