Posted by Andy Hassall on 10/27/06 21:26

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:45:23 -0500, David <dm_fw@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>I inherited a system with PHP installed without CURL compiled into the
>PHP module. Is there any good reason for NOT adding curl into PHP? I
>have been asked to rebuild PHP, but do not wish to cause future
>issues.

The only reason I can think of is that you want to deliberately restrict PHP
to make network communication with other servers harder - in which case you'd
also need to disable fopen_wrappers and possibly a number of other extensions
and/or enable safe_mode with various disabled functions.

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