Posted by Johnny on 10/12/06 22:13

"Colin McKinnon"
<colin.thisisnotmysurname@ntlworld.deletemeunlessURaBot.com> wrote in
message news:ABwXg.23197$pa.2003@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
> yodertony@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Unfortunately, this host does not have some extensions enabled which I
> > need, namely, the dom-xml and xslt extensions.
> >
> > Assuming that the server admins ignore my pleas, is there a way to
> > locally
> > enable these extensions for my account, with a local copy of php.ini,
>
> no.
>
> > or
> > local copies of the proper *.so files,
> If they are already on the server you may be able to use dl() to load them
> at runtime. If their not there already then a sure fire way to upset your
> provider is to start uploading binaries into a shared webserver.

Thanks for that info Colin.
I see on php,net there is an expoit related to dl() and I just checked a
couple of hosts of clienst and enable_dl is on on both
and I don't seem to be able to turn it off using .htaccess
I tried
php_value enable_dl Off

and it accepted that but phpinfo() showed it still on

should I be concerned or is this a rare exploit?

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