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Bug #66606 Sets HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE but not CONTENT_TYPE
Submitted: 2014-01-29 17:40 UTC Modified: 2015-08-09 01:02 UTC
Votes:9
Avg. Score:3.6 ± 1.3
Reproduced:9 of 9 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (22.2%)
Same OS:3 (33.3%)
From: pmjones88 at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Built-in web server
PHP Version: 5.5.8 OS: Mac OS X
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-01-29 17:40 UTC] pmjones88 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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The CGI RFC at https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875.txt specifies that the Content-Type header value should be stored in CONTENT_TYPE, but the built-in web server stores it in $_SERVER['HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE'] and does not create a $_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'] key. (This probably affects CONTENT_LENGTH as well.)

Test script:
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// put this in an index file and un the PHP web server against it,
// then issue `curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8000`
// and see that there is no CONTENT_TYPE key, only HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE.
var_dump($_SERVER)

Expected result:
----------------
Expected to see a CONTENT_TYPE key.

Actual result:
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Saw only HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE key.

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 [2015-08-08 18:13 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2015-08-09 00:57 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Analyzed
 [2015-08-09 00:57 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Indeed, RFC 3875 section 4.1.3 states:

| If the request includes a message-body, the CONTENT_TYPE
| variable is set to the Internet Media Type [6] of the
| message-body.
| [...]
| The server MUST set this meta-variable if an
| HTTP Content-Type field is present in the client request header.

As there is no particular reason to not to comply with RFC 3875 in
this regard, I consider this a bug that ought to be fixed.

PR #886 is the way to go. Thanks, wusuopu.
 [2015-08-09 01:01 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of admin@longchangjin.cn
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=72976e2497f963b7f203443f9881d52e0ff97962
Log: Fix #66606: Sets HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE but not CONTENT_TYPE
 [2015-08-09 01:01 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Analyzed +Status: Closed
 [2015-08-09 01:02 UTC] cmb@php.net 
The fix for this bug has been committed.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2015-08-18 16:24 UTC] ab@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of admin@longchangjin.cn
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=72976e2497f963b7f203443f9881d52e0ff97962
Log: Fix #66606: Sets HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE but not CONTENT_TYPE
 
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