Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28319&edit=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:
Why is this bug marked as "Bogus"?
Previous Comments:
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[2004-05-07 19:54:55] [email protected]
http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.directives.php#ini.arg-separator.input
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[2004-05-07 19:51:09] nick at careercast dot com
Description:
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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=bob&var2=jim
instead, you have to use:
http://host/script.php?var1=bob&var2=jim
PHP should follow the W3C recommendation and support ";" as a delimiter
for name/value pairs in URLs
Reproduce code:
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<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:
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Array
(
[var1] => bob;var2=jim
)
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