Mar 19th, 2009, 10:05 PM
Hey Alex,
Welcome to the forums!
Yes, it does have security implications, but it's debatable as to what extent disabling it really helps... Your server prevented PHP scripts using the set_time_limit function because technically, some evil hacker like myself could come along and set it to, say, 1 year, then do something ee-vil, like send a single mail() request to send a few hundred thousand spam.
But you should never see that warning so I'll mark it down as a bug. It's as easy fix to prevent it showing up.
Thanks!
- Ben
Welcome to the forums!
Yes, it does have security implications, but it's debatable as to what extent disabling it really helps... Your server prevented PHP scripts using the set_time_limit function because technically, some evil hacker like myself could come along and set it to, say, 1 year, then do something ee-vil, like send a single mail() request to send a few hundred thousand spam.
But you should never see that warning so I'll mark it down as a bug. It's as easy fix to prevent it showing up.
Thanks!
- Ben