[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58788: Call to undefined function get_locale() in admin.php

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#58788: Call to undefined function get_locale() in admin.php
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 Reporter:  zyphlar         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:  has-patch       |     Focuses:  administration
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Comment (by zyphlar):

 Thanks, in that case the real issue is that

 > If WordPress is used on a production server, error displays should
 be disabled, and/or direct access to the php files in the above
 directories disabled.

 is probably not a sustainable solution. I see the errors in my error logs
 which makes me as an admin think that there's something broken with my
 website. The onus shouldn't be on me as an admin to modify the htaccess or
 other access controls of a software package to prevent spurious errors:
 all unhandled exceptions represent an unexpected condition that deserves
 investigation, so if failure on direct access is expected then the best
 place to handle that is inside the script itself where it refuses to
 proceed under invalid conditions.

 You can close and #WontFix this, but it'll keep being an issue and keep
 making people think there are problems, as the eight duplicate tickets
 attest to. It shouldn't be hard to put a one-liner `exit("direct script
 access disabled");` at the top of these files, or improved htaccess rules.

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