On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Tangentially related: Can anybody think of a legitimate reason for a<br>
theme to ever use file_get_contents() in any way that makes sense or<br>
has no better way to do things?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, for the simple reason that they should instead be using wp_remote_get.</div><div><br></div><div>A decent number do though, with okay intentions (but they should still be using wp_remote_get).</div>
<div><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:themes.svn.wordpress.org+file_get_contents">http://www.google.com/search?q=site:themes.svn.wordpress.org+file_get_contents</a></div><div><br></div><div>Of course, at one point does someone begin to simply use core functions maliciously?</div>
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