stripslashes on &_SERVER calls, waste of time?

[aewarnick]

Is there a reason people use stripslashes on on things like this:
dirname(stripslashes($_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]));

[bretticus]

I suppose dirname MIGHT return a backslash in a folder name with a space. You'll have to check that. That's the only scenario that I can fathom though.

[Drakla]

On a Windows box if you've got magic quotes on then paths are like this:

_SERVER["ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED"] E:\MyPhp\php\Useful bits\localinfoplus.php

[aewarnick]

I'll stick with Linux, thanks.

[Drakla]

Yup, Linux if you can. I was just using that to illustrate that if magic quotes are on then slashes are added even to the $SERVER array, and $COOKIE array, and the... $_G... etc

[aewarnick]

Thanks Drakla and bretticus!