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Bug #23744 $_REQUEST no more includes $_GET variables?
Submitted: 2003-05-21 16:20 UTC Modified: 2003-05-21 17:57 UTC
From: i dot thierack at iwt-promotion dot net Assigned: iliaa (profile)
Status: Closed Package: URL related
PHP Version: 4.3.2RC3 OS: Debian 3.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-05-21 16:20 UTC] i dot thierack at iwt-promotion dot net 
Hello,

following problem with 4.3.2RC3 (it works with 4.3.1)

Browser URL :
http://intraddms/fiatbearb/adr_index.php?1234567890

var_dump from $_REQUEST

array(2) { [0]=>  string(1) "0" ["PHPSESSID"]=>  string(32)
"3f8ee06297a919da9d84cd713473fe5d" }

if have a query like

if(!isset($_REQUEST["1234567890"]){ << BUG? it's alway true
 initialize some variables
}

if i replace it with $_GET it works. Switch back to 4.3.1 it works also with $_REQUEST

regards
Ingo Thierack

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 [2003-05-21 16:59 UTC] sniper@php.net 
This was broken by another fix related to $_REQUEST.
Assigned to Ilia who broke it. :)
 [2003-05-21 17:38 UTC] michael dot mauch at gmx dot de 
The problem appears only with numeric argument names:

test.php?123=45   =>

_REQUEST: Array
(
    [0] => 45
)
_GET: Array
(
    [123] => 45
)

test.php?a123=45   =>

_REQUEST: Array
(
    [a123] => 45
)
_GET: Array
(
    [a123] => 45
)
 [2003-05-21 17:49 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
This may very well be a "Won't Fix" but we will see what Ilia thinks.

This has traditionally not worked very reliably.  PHP has always expected to see valid variable names in the get and post key/value pairs.  For example, try putting a . (dot) in a variable name.  You will see it gets converted to an underscore.  The idea here is that anything in $_GET/$_POST/$_COOKIE can be extract()'ed directly into the symbol table and you can't have variables called $123 and $.abc so these variable names are technically not supported in our GPC arrays.  That doesn't mean you can't use them, you will just have to do a bit of work yourself.  In your case you would need to look at $QUERY_STRING and parse that.
 [2003-05-21 17:57 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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