PHP allow_url_fopen Disabled Mar17 '05
An email sent to me, this morning, by the Dreamhost Annoucement Team:
PHP provides a feature allowing a programmer to open, include or otherwise use a remote file using a URL rather than a local file path. Unfortunately, that feature is the source of a large number of security holes in PHP web applications running on our servers and we have been spending an increasing amount of time handling issues resulting from those security exploits. In the interest of overall system security, we have decided to disable this feature as of now. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact our support team if you have any questions.
This affects me greatly, to the point that some of my sites are no longer functional.
More on this later...
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