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Bug #12608 $REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING isn't parsed into $HTTP_GET_VARS
Submitted: 2001-08-06 18:57 UTC Modified: 2001-08-07 17:38 UTC
From: havardda-dev at orakel dot ntnu dot no Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Variables related
PHP Version: 4.0.5 OS: Debian potato GNU/Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2001-08-06 18:57 UTC] havardda-dev at orakel dot ntnu dot no
The summary field really says it all:
Upon writing a customized 404 script, I stumbled upon the fact that the $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING"] didn't break up into $HTTP_GET_VARS, even though one would expect it to. 
Is there a reason to this? I tried going through the bug database and the email archives, but I didn't seem to find anything similar. My apologies if this still is a second bug report, or if there's some perfectly valid explanation given somewhere.

Thanks for a great tool, by the way.

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 [2001-08-07 08:40 UTC] andy@php.net
I don't know if I read this right, because it was a bit confusing,
but I'll take a shot.

$HTTP_GET_VARS parses the query string for the current page...
I can't think of a good example right now, but it could mess things
up if REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING broke up into HTTP_GET_VARS.

If you wanted to do something like that try a script like the following...
[not tested]
<?
$splitby=split("&",$HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING"]);
for ($i=0;$i<count($splitby);$i++){
$splitfurther=split("=",$splitby[$i]);
$$splitfurther[0]=$splitfurther=[1];
}

This should put the REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING into variables,
like if the redirect query string was foo=bar, then your script should
parse it so that $foo="bar";

Does this help?


 [2001-08-07 09:38 UTC] havardda-dev at orakel dot ntnu dot no
Thanks for the reply.

Sorry that the first post was confusing, I'll try explaining my situation more thoroughly:
I have a site that generates dynamic content. I don't want long, not-user-friendly urls of the form "http://../project/read.php?objectid=33255&section=2355", so I've written a custom 404 script that lets me do a "http://.../project/sectionname/objectname" in true Jakob Nielsen spirit.

So far so good, but say I want to append "?lang=en" (or any get variable) to the url? If I do, the 404 script doesn't see $HTTP_GET_VARS(it is empty), so I have to look at $RQS ($REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING), as per the original note.
This isn't really a problem, I use parse_str() to break up $RQS, and all is well.

So why all the hassle, if all is well? Well, because contrary to what you say, I think (but I may ofcoursly be wrong on this, it wouldn't be the first time :) that breaking up the query string into HTTP_GET_VARS would be a right thing. If I understand the whole 404 process correctly, there will never be a $QUERY_STRING (which normally is what ends up in HTTP_GET_VARS and $argv, I presume) in a 404 script, but instead a $REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING. If this is correct, using $REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING in the same manner as $QUERY_STRING is ok, because both cannot be set at the same time.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 [2001-08-07 12:22 UTC] havardda-dev at orakel dot ntnu dot no
Thanks for the reply.

Sorry that the first post was confusing, I'll try explaining my situation more thoroughly:
I have a site that generates dynamic content. I don't want long, not-user-friendly urls of the form "http://../project/read.php?objectid=33255&section=2355", so I've written a custom 404 script that lets me do a "http://.../project/sectionname/objectname" in true Jakob Nielsen spirit.

So far so good, but say I want to append "?lang=en" (or any get variable) to the url? If I do, the 404 script doesn't see $HTTP_GET_VARS(it is empty), so I have to look at $RQS ($REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING), as per the original note.
This isn't really a problem, I use parse_str() to break up $RQS, and all is well.

So why all the hassle, if all is well? Well, because contrary to what you say, I think (but I may ofcoursly be wrong on this, it wouldn't be the first time :) that breaking up the query string into HTTP_GET_VARS would be a right thing. If I understand the whole 404 process correctly, there will never be a $QUERY_STRING (which normally is what ends up in HTTP_GET_VARS and $argv, I presume) in a 404 script, but instead a $REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING. If this is correct, using $REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING in the same manner as $QUERY_STRING is ok, because both cannot be set at the same time.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 [2001-08-07 17:38 UTC] jeroen@php.net
It is the responsibility of the 404-script to pass on the query string (as far as relevant). This is not a bug, the original query string is not anymore a get-variable-list, only the new query string is.

Use urlencode, implode, and that kind of functions to append the 'old'query-string to the new one.
 
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