PHP's logo GUIDs are dead

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For context: This means that the infamous ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 won't work anymore ;)

I know, it's a shame http://en.wikipedia.org/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001... will stop working someday in a few years :)

I don't understand what this is about. Care to give a little more context?

http://gnome.org/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000

Yeah. PHP has a hack in it so that the php info page can display the PHP logo, Zend engine logo, and link to the credits, in the form of special GUIDs you can put in the query string. It's one of these things people point out as a waste of space in PHP.

So I wrote a commit that removed them in favour of using Data URIs and embedding the credits in the php info page itself.

Oh, I guess it's the solution to this issue then:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55497

Eh. It's obviously an issue if not disabled.

But what's more worrying is people not disabling it. It's very easy, expose_php is an ini setting that it disables this, and the PHP version header sent in HTTP requests (and some other things too).

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