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Request #20308 parse_url does not understand the Mailto scheme
Submitted: 2002-11-08 03:56 UTC Modified: 2002-11-29 11:59 UTC
From: Otto dot Stolz at uni-konstanz dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 4.2.2 OS: SunOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-11-08 03:56 UTC] Otto dot Stolz at uni-konstanz dot de 
parse_url('mailto:Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de')
yields:
 array( ['scheme'] => 'mailto'
        ['path'] => 'Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de'
      )

According
to <http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2368/Output/chapter2.html>
and <http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2822/Output/chapter3.html#sub4>,
it should rather yield:
 array( ['scheme'] => 'mailto'
        ['host'] => 'uni-konstanz.de'
        ['user'] => 'Otto.Stolz'
      )

A test page can be found at
<http://www.rz.uni-konstanz.de/Antivirus/tests/parse_url.php>,
the pertinent PHP source at
<http://www.rz.uni-konstanz.de/Antivirus/tests/parse_url.txt>.

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 [2002-11-08 03:59 UTC] tal@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2002-11-08 04:45 UTC] wez@php.net 
PHP does not parse out those parts of the mailto url;
re-opening as a feature request.
 [2002-11-29 11:59 UTC] pollita@php.net 
After much back-and-forth on php-dev it was decided to leave parse_url() as is.

To achieve the functionality you're looking for try something like the following:

$addr = parse_url('mailto:testuser@example.com?Subject=Here+is+an+email');
list($email,$params) = explode("?",$addr,2);
list($user,$host) = explode("@",$email,2);

// $user == "testuser";
// $host == "example.com";
// $params = "Subject=Here+is+an+email";
 
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