From: main at springtimesoftware dot com
Operating system: Windows XP
PHP version: 5.1.6
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Plus sign in URL arg received as space
Description:
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I searched the bug database, but could not find this problem addressed.
This is a simple case using default configurations where a client
JavaScript script sends a plus sign and a space as an argument as part of
a URL to a server.
The script constructs the URL using the JavaScript 'escape' function, as
recommended:
URL='www.example.com/example.php?Arg='+escape('+ ');
The server, running Apache and PHP, automatically runs urldecode (that is,
I think it does; I could not find this documented in the PHP manual even
after I did a lot of searching).
The PHP code
$Arg=$_GET["Arg"];
receives the string as " " (two spaces) instead of the expected "+ ".
This is not a bug, but documented behavior of urldecode!
My request for a feature is this: add a runtime-accessible configuration
option to suppress any default decoding of GET, POST, and other such
arrays. Then the programmer can use rawurldecode to decode arguments
properly.
Note: Although I only mentioned plus sign and space above, I really want
to pass a string that can contain characters with any byte value, 0 to
255. This is to support cryptology protocols.
David Spector
Springtime Software
Reproduce code:
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Let me know if you really need a test case. It would include a client page
and a server page.
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=trysnapshot44
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Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39078&r=mysqlcfg
