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Bug #62844 parse_url() does not recognize //
Submitted: 2012-08-17 09:22 UTC Modified: 2012-08-20 05:21 UTC
From: phpqa at sebastianmendel dot de Assigned: stas (profile)
Status: Closed Package: URL related
PHP Version: 5.4.6 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-08-17 09:22 UTC] phpqa at sebastianmendel dot de 
Description:
------------
parse_url() does not recognize '//' as scheme to host separator and therefor does 
not recognize exemple.org as host in URL "//example.org"

Test script:
---------------
var_dump(parse_url('//example.org'));


Expected result:
----------------
array(1) {
  'host' =>
  string(11) "example.org"
}


Actual result:
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array(1) {
  'path' =>
  string(14) "//example.org"
}

Patches

parse_url_relative_scheme2 (last revision 2012-08-19 23:31 UTC by ajf at ajf dot me)
parse_url_relative_scheme (last revision 2012-08-19 23:10 UTC by ajf at ajf dot me)

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 [2012-08-17 09:59 UTC] phpqa at sebastianmendel dot de 
even if doc says "This function doesn't work with relative URLs." it also says: 
"Partial URLs are also accepted, parse_url() tries its best to parse them 
correctly."

and it parses relative URLs like /path/file.html?var=1&foo=bar#123 correctly
 [2012-08-19 23:33 UTC] ajf at ajf dot me 
Added patch and made pull request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/169
 [2012-08-20 05:21 UTC] stas@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in SVN.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.

 For Windows:

http://windows.php.net/snapshots/
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2012-08-20 05:21 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: stas
 [2013-10-22 16:44 UTC] hanskrentel at yahoo dot de 
There is a problem when having @ before the (empty) hostname, the "try best as possible" is gone then since 5.4.7 (when this 62844 fix was introduced):

echo print_r(parse_url('//site@/path/to/file.css?query'));

not parsing any path nor other parts any longer - it did before. the fix has somewhat broken this.

http://3v4l.org/mhsO7

Also why do you introduce a backwards incompatible change in a minor revision?
 [2013-10-22 18:45 UTC] ajf at ajf dot me 
hanskrentel,

The change was not, so far as we knew, backwards-incompatible. It broke no existing test cases and introduced a new one.

It says "Partial URLs are also accepted, parse_url() tries its best to parse them correctly." in the documentation. This is correct, and this patch helped that, as it fixed a partial URL case which wasn't working.

It's unfortunate that the case you are showing was broken, however I do not believe that is a valid URI (please point me to the section in the RFC disagreeing if I'm wrong), and while parse_url() will "try its best" to parse partial URLs, it can't reasonably be expected to "try its best" to parse malformed URLs.
 
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