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Stefan Esser's Blog: Xdebug 2.0.3 - Stealth Patch

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:43:52 -0500

Stefan Esser has released a patch, pulled originally from the Suhosin project's functionality, that allows you to use a bit of stealth for run the Zend Debugger and XDebug at the same time.

Those asking usually can understand why running two debuggers at the same time will lead to problems, but they don't understand why problems should arise when only one is used at a time. They want to be able to load Zend Debugger and Xdebug with the same php.ini without the need to restart the whole server just to change the debugger.

You can grab the patch from his site and install it like normal. With the patch, your PHP install will handle the rest behind the scenes.

PHP Security Blog: The Suhosin Patch, File Uploads, and Stealth Mode

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:02:00 -0600

On the PHP Security Blog, there's two new posts concerning their Suhosin patch for PHP - one talking about a remote code execution vulnerability found in the uploadprogressmeter extension (which as already been corrected) and the other dealing with the "stealth mode" of the patch to find compatibility problems.

As mentioned, the issue with the uploadprogress extension has been fixed and as been introduced into the PECL repository. The other post just mentions what the patch is doing to try to keep compatibility problems from happening due to back extensions and/or modules being loaded in an application.

More details about the Suhosin patch can be found here.