Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28319edit=1
ID: 28319
Comment by: kaldari at gmail dot com
Reported by:nick at careercast dot com
Summary:Query string parsing not respecting semicolon as a
delimiter
Status: Bogus
Type: Bug
Package:CGI related
Operating System: Linux
PHP Version:4.3.4
Block user comment: N
New Comment:
Ah, I found it. It's because you can set the arg separator used by PHP
with the arg_separator.input directive in your php.ini file. The URL
above is broken, by the way, which is why this wasn't evident.
Previous Comments:
[2010-10-19 07:11:25] kaldari at gmail dot com
Why is this bug marked as Bogus?
[2004-05-07 19:54:55] w...@php.net
http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.directives.php#ini.arg-separator.input
[2004-05-07 19:51:09] nick at careercast dot com
Description:
W3C spec indicates that valid separators for name value pairs are
and ;.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2
We recommend that HTTP server implementors, and in particular, CGI
implementors support the use of ; in place of to save authors the
trouble of escaping characters in this manner.
This becomes an issue when you are dealing with xml/xsl/xhtml, because
you can no longer use:
http://host/script.php?var1=bobvar2=jim
instead, you have to use:
http://host/script.php?var1=bobamp;var2=jim
PHP should follow the W3C recommendation and support ; as a delimiter
for name/value pairs in URLs
Reproduce code:
---
xmp
?php
print_r ($_GET);
?
/xmp
And then call this script with this query string:
?var1=bob;var2=jim
Expected result:
Array
(
[var1] = bob
[var2] = jim
)
Actual result:
--
Array
(
[var1] = bob;var2=jim
)
--
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