ID: 27372
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: php-bug-27372 at ryandesign dot com
-Status: Assigned
+Status: Closed
Bug Type: *General Issues
Operating System: *
PHP Version: 6CVS, 5CVS, 4CVS (2005-08-25)
Assigned To: jani
New Comment:
This is now fixed in CVS. Now it is possible to use the plain
browscap.ini everybody else uses and there is no more need for the
"special" quoted version for PHP.
Previous Comments:
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[2004-10-04 17:05:44] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This would have to be caught during module start up, but
what should be done about it? Have the parser crap out and
stop processing when this happens, leaving an error
message in the logs or on stderr or whatever? Spit out a
warning but continue processing? What assumptions should
be made about the screwed up entry, should it just be
discarded?
This should probably be in it's own bug report, btw, this
is a seperate issue from the original report. (The new
parser fixes the original bug report, but not this issue,
which may or may not be fixed, as it's kind of a problem
with the ini file itself, akin to calling a function with
infinite recursion...)
J
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[2004-10-02 21:54:48] alexandre at alapetite dot remove dot net
Gary Keith has already (2004-10-02) kindly modified his browscap.ini in
order to prevent a specific crash about the Nutch browser. But the
browscap parser should anyway include a security: when one assign a
parent to the same parent in browscap.ini, there is an infinite loop
that should be prevented.
Example in browscap.ini:
[Nutch]
parent=Nutch
Then in a PHP script:
$browser=get_browser('Nutch');
Effect:
Infinite loop that takes 100% CPU forever.
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[2004-08-31 21:22:34] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I posted this on internals but I should probably add it to
the bug report, too...
A patch for this against HEAD is available at
http://bugs.tutorbuddy.com/download.php/browscap.patch.tar.gz
It contains the new parser (which goes into ext/standard)
and updates to the makefiles for *ix and win32. I've
tested the patch on linux and win2k, and I'd like to
commit to HEAD for inclusion in 5.1. Backporting to 5.0
would be nice, too, if possible.
J
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[2004-02-26 18:32:25] php_bug_27372 at garykeith dot com
Hi, Derick.
Since there are so many people still using very early versions of 4.3.x
I know it will be a very long time before everyone upgrades to 5.* and
that means I'll be stuck in the same untenable situation I'm in right
now for a very long time.
Kindly remove the link to my website from your documentation page. It's
not fair to your users to refer them to a browscap.ini file that does
not work in PHP.
~gary.
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[2004-02-24 11:14:33] php_bug_27372 at garykeith dot com
Oh, and the reason I cannot delimit certain values with double-quotes
is because browscap.dll does not strip out the quotes. If I entered
"Yahoo! Slurp" as a browser name then everyone using browscap.ini on IIS
would see "Yahoo! Slurp", including the double quotes as the browser
name.
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