[pubsubhubbub] Re: hub.verify - clarification on repeated keywords/parameters?

[Jay Rossiter]

Most of these quirks are holdovers from the days when register_globals was commonly used.  Since ., -, and many other non-word chars aren't valid in variable names, they were all converted to _.     The "must use arrays in POST keys" is simply a result of Rasmus being bullheaded.  (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16195)     "No, until such a time that a browser exists where [] doesn't work, I see no reason to change anything.  Standards mean very little on the web. Most of the web is completely non-standard as it is." On 10/19/2009 1:23 PM, Pádraic Brady wrote: PHP has a few "clever" and "helpful" features. For example, a posted hub.verify is accessed as $_POST['hub_verify']. Besides Jay's observation, it also munges the period character into an underscore during parsing. I believe it does the same thing for a few other characters. So yes, self implemented parsing is almost a given for protocols like Pubsubhubbub. Normal web apps design around all this by force of habit - it's surprising how many PHP developers aren't even aware it's a problem... I really love PHP, but it can try even my patience sometimes ;).   Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.survivethedeepend.com OpenID Europe Foundation Irish Representative From: Jay Rossiter <jrossi...@pheedo.com> To: "pubsubhubbub@googlegroups.com" <pubsubhubbub@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, October 19, 2009 8:47:19 PM Subject: [pubsubhubbub] Re: hub.verify - clarification on repeated keywords/parameters? On 10/19/2009 9:12 AM, Brett Slatkin wrote: Python's CGI module will give you back a set of key/list pairs, with the values listed in the order they appeared in the string. Query-string encoding does enough variable munging that we shouldn't have to add yet another level of parsing on top of that, which is why we're going with #1. How hard is it to make this work right in PHP for clients?     The issue with PHP is their inane refusal to natively support repeated parameters.   Repeated parameters must be passed in an array format.     hub.verify[]=sync&hub.verify[]=async     If passed in a normally specified way (hub.verify=&hub.verify=) .. the latter parameters simply overwrite the former.  Variable stomping.     You have to fread "php://input" (the raw POST stream) and parse it into variables on your own. -- Jay Rossiter | Software Engineer/System Administrator Pioneering RSS Advertising Solutions jrossi...@pheedo.com | Phone: 503.896.6187 | Fax: 503.235.2216 Website: www.pheedo.com | RSS: www.pheedo.info/index.xml -- Jay Rossiter | Software Engineer/System Administrator Pioneering RSS Advertising Solutions jrossi...@pheedo.com | Phone: 503.896.6187 | Fax: 503.235.2216 Website: www.pheedo.com | RSS: www.pheedo.info/index.xml