Your message dated Fri, 04 Jul 2014 14:09:04 +0200
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and subject line Closing bugs filled against php5 in oldstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #612364,
regarding php5: get_browser() inserts special characters without respecting
encoding
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Package: php5
Version: 5.3.3-7
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
A change ocurred in the get_browser() function between PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3
which
in my view represents a BC break. The get_browser() function now inserts a
special character (U+00A7, "Section marker") at the beginning and end of the
browser_name_regex property of the returned object/array. The issue with this
is that the special character is encoded in ISO-8859-1 regardless of what
encoding
was requested either via header() or default_charset. This results in not only
improper output (if the results of get_browser() are sent to the output) but
alsoo
disasterous failure if attempting to interoperate with UTF-8 services --
for example a database using UTF-8 encoding.
I am guessing that the reason for the introduction of this character was to
allow
the browser_name_regex string to have delimiters so that it could be used
directly
in preg_match() or similar, and the strange delimiter was chosen to minimize the
chance of collision with the pattern. However, introducing special characters
in a particular encoding in PHP functions that ought to be returning ASCII
strings
only seems unwise.
It's possible that the encoding problem itself was introduced in Debian, but I
do
see the special character in the vanilla source distribution of PHP so it seems
this "feature" was introduced upstream (marked as such).
Jeremy
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages php5 depends on:
ii libapache2-mod-php5 5.3.3-7 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii php5-common 5.3.3-7 Common files for packages built fr
php5 recommends no packages.
php5 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 5.4.4-14
Hey all,
I am closing the bugs that were filled against php5 5.3 in Debian
oldstable
(well and earlier)...
Feel free to reopen the bug in you can reproduce it with php5 from
current
stable Debian release.
Cheers,
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Ondřej Surý <[email protected]>
Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server
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