On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Stefan Esser wrote:

> From my point of view it would have been better to have another ini directive
> like allow_url_includes that defaults to off. However under no circumstances
> allow_url_fopen can be turned back to INI_ALL. An admin has to decide if he
> allows any kind of access to remote files and this is his only way to achieve
> disabling remote file wrappers.
> 
> Without a new ini directive I only see the possibility to build an emulation
> layer:
> 
> Sys: allow_url_fopen = Off  ->  User: ini_set("allow_url_fopen",1) fails
> Sys: allow_url_fopen = On -> User: ini_set("allow_url_fopen",0/1) works

You can use in httpd.conf:
php_admin_value allow_url_fopen 0

which users can not override already... so I don't see the point of 
implementing the behavior that you have (otherwise it's a good idea).

What we should perhaps do is revert the change that made allow_url_fopen 
back to INI_ALL...

regards,
Derick

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