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Bug #28820 Relative paths do not work with 'file://' stream wrapper
Submitted: 2004-06-17 22:39 UTC Modified: 2004-06-18 00:38 UTC
Votes:9
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.9
Reproduced:8 of 9 (88.9%)
Same Version:2 (25.0%)
Same OS:3 (37.5%)
From: benjcarson at digitaljunkies dot ca Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-06-17 (dev) OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-06-17 22:39 UTC] benjcarson at digitaljunkies dot ca
Description:
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When using fopen_wrappers, if a relative path is prepended with 'file://', fopen() and friends fail and emit a warning about remote access being unsupported for file access.  fopen() succeeds if 'file://' is omitted.

On a possibly related note, parse_url("file://test.php") returns array(scheme => "file", host => "test.php").  I would imagine this is the desired behaviour for remote protocols (e.g. 'http://php.net').  However, if the fopen wrapper for 'file://' is calling parse_url() internally, this could explain why the error message is complaining about remote hosts.  I'm not familiar with the stream internals, though, so I might be way off here...

And just in case anyone asks:

benj@mjollnir:test$ php -r 'print_r(stream_get_wrappers());'
Array
(
    [0] => php
    [1] => file
    [2] => http
    [3] => ftp
    [4] => compress.bzip2
    [5] => compress.zlib
    [6] => https
    [7] => ftps
)



Reproduce code:
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#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
// Note: 'test.php' exists in the current directory
$filename = "test.php";
$f1 = fopen($filename, "r");                       // works
$f2 = fopen("file://". $filename, "r");            // fails
$f3 = fopen(realpath($filename), "r");             // works
$f4 = fopen("file://" . realpath($filename), "r"); // works
?>

Expected result:
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(no output)

Actual result:
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Warning: fopen(): remote host file access not supported, file://test.php in ./file_get_contents.php on line 6

Warning: fopen(file://test.php): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in ./file_get_contents.php on line 6


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 [2004-06-18 00:29 UTC] pollita@php.net
On the note about parse_url(), no fopen() does not call parse_url to determine wrapper usage.

The reason relative paths are not supported with the file:// wrapper comes down to a compromise in how UNC paths are dealt with (and more specifically how / are fuzzily interpreted as \ for windows installations).

For Example:

file://foo/bar

Could be interpreted as a relative URI:  foo/bar  from the current working directory, OR it could be interpreted as a UNC:  \\foo\bar  (share `bar` on computer `foo`).

For this and a few internal reasons the file:// wrapper is limited to absolute paths when called explicitly.  For relative paths either use realpath() {as you did in your report}, or omit the explicit naming of the file wrapper.

I notice that the wording on http://www.php.net/wrappers regarding relative paths is a touch ambiguous.  I'll update that to show that only absolute paths are supported when explicitly naming the wrapper.

 [2004-06-18 00:38 UTC] benjcarson at digitaljunkies dot ca
Thanks for the explanation & the doc fix.  What you say makes perfect sense.
 [2017-11-02 00:24 UTC] bilge at scriptfusion dot com
Whether or not the docs did once explain that only absolute paths work with the file:// wrapper, that no longer appears to be the case. What's even less clear is that they support UNC paths by some mechanism.
 
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