There seems to be a behavior change introduced in 5.2.1 and I would like
to know if it was deliberate.
A couple of years ago, PHP introduced functionality that made it
possible to use a certain trick. I don't know how to describe this
trick in words, so I will illustrate with an example.
http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.php/phonypage.pdf
In this example there is a PHP script called mypage.php which serves up
a PDF. Putting the extra text at the end of the URL makes it appear to
the user's browser that the URL ends with '.pdf' rather than '.php'. We
introduced this hack at my company because a few users were unable to
view pages containing PDF or RTF content, presumably because of some
combination of browser and/or firewall settings.
I find that version 5.2.1 breaks this behavior - attempting to visit a
URL such as the above produces a 'page not found' error. Presumably
because it is trying to find the file 'phonypage.pdf' which doesn't exist.
My question is, should this be regarded as a bug which might be fixed?
Or is this a deliberate change of behavior?
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Thank you,
Lewis Kapell
Computer Operations
Seton Home Study School
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