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[Simon Wilson]

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


> Quoting simon at 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...
>
> 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.
>
> michael
>

Thanks Michael, and understood.

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

Simon.

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