Hi Johannes,

as far as I understood the issue, this error would be triggered before the 
application's code is executed, so that would not solve this issue.



Cheers
Jannik

Am 04.01.2012 um 21:46 schrieb Johannes Schlüter:

> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 12:29 -0800, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>>> But there is a very valid security concern here. People can usually run
>>> safely with display_errors enabled if their code is well-written. They
>> 
>> Oh no. Nobody should or can safely run production with display_errors. 
>> Everybody thinks their code is well-written, but display_errors should 
>> never be enabled in production, however high is your opinion of the code.
>> I'm afraid people now will start quoting this saying "ok, yeah, if 
>> you're a bad programmer, disable display_errors, but I'm a good 
>> programmer, my code is solid, I even have a dozen of unit tests, so I 
>> just go ahead and enable display_errors" and then we have this sad state 
>> of affairs where sites spill out error messages that are never supposed 
>> to be seen by clients because developers thought it can never happen.
> 
> On shared hosts display_errors typically is on, but the application can
> do ini_set('display_errors', 0) or such ...
> 
> johannes
> 
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