diff --git a/htdocs/sql/libraries/grab_globals.lib.php b/htdocs/sql/libraries/grab_globals.lib.php
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--- a/htdocs/sql/libraries/grab_globals.lib.php
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-<?php
-/* vim: set expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4: */
-/**
- * This library grabs the names and values of the variables sent or posted to a
- * script in $_GET, $_POST and $_FILES superglobals and sets simple globals 
- * variables from them. It does the same work for $HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE and 
- * $HTTP_AUTHORIZATION.
- *
- * @version $Id: grab_globals.lib.php 11335 2008-06-21 14:01:54Z lem9 $
- */
-if (! defined('PHPMYADMIN')) {
-    exit;
-}
-
-/**
- * copy values from one array to another, usally from a superglobal into $GLOBALS
- *
- * @uses    $GLOBALS['_import_blacklist']
- * @uses    preg_replace()
- * @uses    array_keys()
- * @uses    array_unique()
- * @uses    stripslashes()
- * @param   array   $array      values from
- * @param   array   $target     values to
- * @param   boolean $sanitize   prevent importing key names in $_import_blacklist
- */
-function PMA_recursive_extract($array, &$target, $sanitize = true)
-{
-    if (! is_array($array)) {
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    if ($sanitize) {
-        $valid_variables = preg_replace($GLOBALS['_import_blacklist'], '',
-            array_keys($array));
-        $valid_variables = array_unique($valid_variables);
-    } else {
-        $valid_variables = array_keys($array);
-    }
-
-    foreach ($valid_variables as $key) {
-
-        if (strlen($key) === 0) {
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        if (is_array($array[$key])) {
-            // there could be a variable coming from a cookie of
-            // another application, with the same name as this array
-            unset($target[$key]);
-
-            PMA_recursive_extract($array[$key], $target[$key], false);
-        } else {
-            $target[$key] = $array[$key];
-        }
-    }
-    return true;
-}
-
-
-/**
- * @var array $_import_blacklist variable names that should NEVER be imported
- *                              from superglobals
- */
-$_import_blacklist = array(
-    '/^cfg$/i',         // PMA configuration
-    '/^server$/i',      // selected server
-    '/^db$/i',          // page to display
-    '/^table$/i',       // page to display
-    '/^goto$/i',        // page to display
-    '/^back$/i',        // the page go back
-    '/^lang$/i',        // selected language
-    '/^convcharset$/i', // PMA convert charset
-    '/^collation_connection$/i', //
-    '/^set_theme$/i',   //
-    '/^sql_query$/i',   // the query to be executed
-    '/^GLOBALS$/i',     // the global scope
-    '/^str.*$/i',       // PMA localized strings
-    '/^_.*$/i',         // PMA does not use variables starting with _ from extern
-    '/^.*\s+.*$/i',     // no whitespaces anywhere
-    '/^[0-9]+.*$/i',    // numeric variable names
-    //'/^PMA_.*$/i',      // other PMA variables
-);
-
-if (! empty($_GET)) {
-    PMA_recursive_extract($_GET, $GLOBALS);
-}
-
-if (! empty($_POST)) {
-    PMA_recursive_extract($_POST, $GLOBALS);
-}
-
-if (! empty($_FILES)) {
-    $_valid_variables = preg_replace($GLOBALS['_import_blacklist'], '', array_keys($_FILES));
-    foreach ($_valid_variables as $name) {
-        if (strlen($name) != 0) {
-            $$name = $_FILES[$name]['tmp_name'];
-            ${$name . '_name'} = $_FILES[$name]['name'];
-        }
-    }
-    unset($name, $value);
-}
-
-/**
- * globalize some environment variables
- */
-$server_vars = array('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE', 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION');
-foreach ($server_vars as $current) {
-    // it's not important HOW we detect html tags
-    // it's more important to prevent XSS
-    // so it's not important if we result in an invalid string,
-    // it's even better than a XSS capable string
-    if (PMA_getenv($current) && false === strpos(PMA_getenv($current), '<')) {
-        $$current = PMA_getenv($current);
-    // already imported by register_globals?
-    } elseif (! isset($$current) || false !== strpos($$current, '<')) {
-        $$current = '';
-    }
-}
-unset($server_vars, $current, $_import_blacklist);
-
-?>