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Operating system: All
PHP version: Irrelevant
Package: *General Issues
Bug Type: Bug
Bug description:the string replacement of CRLF does not work consistently
Description:
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No matter how many ways CRLF (\r\n) has been tried to be replaced in a PHP
script by <BR>, it does not produce a consistent result.
This happens especially when trying to parse returned whois information.
The $info in the following script will work with some parsing of the whois
info with a string replacement of a CRLF (\r\n) on one domain (registrar)
and yet on a different domain it will not work at all.
I have looked at the differing outputs (depending on domain name) with a
HEX editor and I know for a fact that there is a replacement problem with
CRLF and php. I have tried A LOT of various scripts from people having the
same problem, with no further success. The replacement of \r\n should be
straight forward as in other languages but it is not in php. Perhaps a
special function should be made for the task of replacemet of CRLF with
another character.
Have a look at the code below. Try different domain names and notice how
the CRLF is parsed (with your own code to parse $info) on some domain
information it will work and yet other domains it will not parse the CRLF
(HEX-ODOA)!
This is an ongoing problem for other people as well.
Test script:
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<?php
require_once "Net/Whois.php";
$whois = new Net_Whois();
/* You can add other NIC server as a second parameter. */
$info = $whois->query('example.com');
echo($info);
?>
Expected result:
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Please fix this string replacement problem _PLEASE.
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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54732&edit=1
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Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=trysnapshot52
Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=trysnapshot53
Try a snapshot (trunk):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=trysnapshottrunk
Fixed in SVN:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=needscript
Try newer version:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=support
Expected behavior:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=php4
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=dst
IIS Stability:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=float
No Zend Extensions:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54732&r=mysqlcfg
