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Doc Bug #12706 parse_url misbehaves
Submitted: 2001-08-12 07:47 UTC Modified: 2002-06-09 19:37 UTC
From: php dot net dot josef at lushnet dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.0.6 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-08-12 07:47 UTC] php dot net dot josef at lushnet dot com 
It seems that parse_url returns an empty host when the scheme is missing:

$url = parse_url("http://www.lalala.com"); print $url["host"];

-> outputs "www.lalala.com"

$url = parse_url("www.lalala.com"); print $url["host"];

-> outputs ""


I tried to reproduce the bug on windows2k, but there it worked just like it should. It could of course also be that I'm a complete idiot since I've only been using PHP for a few days, but the result seems to be persistant.

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 [2001-08-12 18:11 UTC] jeroen@php.net 
www.lalala.com isn't a valid url. The docs say nothing about such a case, so it's undefined.

Use var_dump on $url to see what happens, PHP thinks www.bla.com is the path. (both linux 403 & 407, and win32 404pl1)

A warning would be appropriate if the url is invalid, looking into that...
 [2001-08-12 18:50 UTC] jeroen@php.net 
After some thinking: This is expected behaviour!

www.lalala.com is a valid directory-name, and therefore it is a relative-path.

Try this in your browser with a <A HREF>, and you'll see that your browser interpretets it identically.

So this is not a bug. (In the manual, it should be clarified that also partial urls are accepted, and some examples?)

Changed to docbug.
 [2002-06-09 19:37 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS. You can grab a snapshot of the
CVS version at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation 
problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/.
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