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Doc Bug #17533 parse_url shouldn't work with http://www..com
Submitted: 2002-05-30 17:53 UTC Modified: 2002-06-09 19:37 UTC
From: dd at selftrade dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.2.1 OS: RedHat 7.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-05-30 17:53 UTC] dd at selftrade dot com 
If you submit a url like www..com to parse_url, it will parse it without any error, although this kind of URL is incorrect.

Try this:

<?

$url="http://www..com";

$a=parse_url($url);

$host=$a[host];
$scheme=$a[scheme];
$path=$a[path];

echo("<LI>SCHEME=$scheme<LI>HOST=$host<LI>PATH=$path");

?>

It will return:

SCHEME=http
HOST=www..com
PATH=

The same kind of thing happens if url="qwerty", as it will return "qwerty" as the path.

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 [2002-06-04 14:20 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
Just a note:

"qwerty" on it's own still can be right (e.g. you have a subdomain qwerty.mydomain.com and set up your box that mydomain.com is in your domain search path).

On the other hand:
php -r 'print_r(parse_url("http://www][.ww_-/...._..-.../"));'

Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => www][.ww_-
    [path] => /...._..-.../
)

So it looks like parse_url() only splits the url into it's distinct parts (which obviously works).

If this is true, this needs to be documented. Anyone else comments?
 [2002-06-04 16:15 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
After examinign the code:

parse_url is not meant to validate the URL, just to break it up into it's distinct parts if possible.

Reclassifying as documentation problem.
 [2002-06-09 19:37 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS. You can grab a snapshot of the
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