[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15038: Ticket #6278 is absurd - and its fix breaks the uploader completely for Mac Users!

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#15038: Ticket #6278 is absurd - and its fix breaks the uploader completely for Mac
Users!
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 Reporter:  jerrek71      |       Owner:                 
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Media         |     Version:  3.0.1          
 Severity:  major         |    Keywords:  flash uploader 
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 Ticket #6278 states that the Flash Uploader does not work when the visitor
 is using Mac OSX

 This is not correct - I am using OSX and the Flash Uploader with
 mod_security2 works just fine.

 But it's worse than that - at least on my server, apache_mod_loaded() just
 kills the script silently. I'm using suPHP so I believe that runs PHP as a
 CGI and so apache_mod_loaded() probably isn't going to work (although one
 would have hoped it would simply return false rather than crash - but
 that's not a WP issue).

 Nonetheless, I don't believe functionality should be blocked simply
 because you're on a Mac (a client issue) and the server has mod_security
 loaded (a server issue). This would be far better solved IF it's an issue,
 with a .htaccess or apache configuration rule such as SecFilterSelective
 or similar.

 This bug is likely to affect many people using cPanel servers - mine's
 just a stock server with suPHP configured.

 To reproduce you'll need to access a WP installation, attempt to upload
 media using a Mac OSX machine and be running on a suPHP based server.

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