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by blueimp 2792 days ago
I agree, the sample code should have been secure by default (with all web server configurations) because it's guaranteed that someone will use it as is without checking their own server configuration.

And inexperienced webmasters were definitely part of the target group, since I wanted to make is as accessible as possible, including for those users on shared hosting webspace without access to the Apache configuration files.