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[Phillip Powell]

Hans Zaunere wrote:

>>Nice function, however, HUGE dilemma: the application that will use
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>>function is designed to be fully portable, that is, it can run in
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>Apache 
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>>or IIS or anything that can run PHP.  That means everything in this 
>>application needs to run equally in any webserver that can handle PHP,
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>>including this function.
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>Another huge problem is security.  The user that Apache/PHP doesn't
>always have read access to the conf files... I know on all of my
>platforms they don't.  This is not a solution, it's a hack.
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>>This function works only if you're using Apache since it retrieves a 
>>specific file /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf that has a value I need that 
>>PHP itself cannot provide to determine the absolute limit of 
>>a request.
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>>So how do I write this for IIS or any other PHP-friendly webserver?
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>And sure, it's totally not portable.
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>There's no solution here that I can see.  As part of installing/setup
>directions for the application, you just need to mention these issues.
>It's not possible to always make an application totally portable, and in
>fact it rarely is.  Your application has some level of dependency that
>your end-user has to be aware of.
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Crud. *sigh* Well, after making a checklist of requirements and 
dependencies, my application
appears to work best in a LAMP environment (surprise surprise) and I've 
taken your advice inasmuch
as noting in my documentation the need for allowances for minimal read 
access to php.conf for the
webserver and/or webserver group.   Allowances for .htaccess are, for 
now, only for error handling (although
I might allow for specialized .htaccess to free up LimitRequestBody to 
unlimited per client request).

Thanx
Phil

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