How can I disable PHP's "easter egg" URLs?
<p>I recently found out about the so-called <a href="http://www.0php.com/php_easter_egg.php" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">"easter egg URLs"</a> in PHP:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>These are the four QUERY strings you can add to the end of a PHP web page to view a (somewhat) hidden image or web page:</p>
</blockquote>

<ol>
<li><code>?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42</code></li>
</ol>

<blockquote>
  <p>This one is the most interesting, and displays an "easter egg" image
  of either a rabbit in a house (Sterling Hughes' rabbit, named
  Carmella), a brown dog in the grass, a black Scottish Terrier dog, a
  sloppy child hand-drawn, crayon-colored php logo, a guy with
  breadsticks (looks like pencils or french fries) sticking out of his
  mouth like a walrus, or a PHP elephant logo.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/Pxwrx.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>Others include:</p>

<ul>
<li><code>?=PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42</code> (PHP Logo)</li>
<li><code>?=PHPE9568F35-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42</code> (Zend logo)</li>
<li><code>?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000</code> (PHP Credits)</li>
</ul>

<p>I was shocked to discover that this does work on a lot of websites, including my own. I think this is idiotic and want to disable it, but from what I hear the only way to do it is in php.ini with <code>expose_php = Off</code>, and it <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/ini.list.php" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">can't be set at runtime</a> with <code>ini_set()</code>.</p>

<p><strong>I don't have direct access to php.ini on the live server.</strong> I have, however, figured out how to unset the <code>X-Powered-By</code> header by using <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/2661808/398242"><code>Header unset X-Powered-By</code></a> in <code>.htaccess</code>, or <code>header('X-Powered-By: ')</code> in the PHP code.</p>

<p>Is there any other way I can disable these "easter eggs", or do I have to get this setting changed in the main <code>php.ini</code> (and is that indeed the correct/only way to disable these URLs)?</p>
