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Bug #79802 VALIDATE_EMAIL has another behaviour as SANITIZE_EMAIL
Submitted: 2020-07-07 07:20 UTC Modified: 2021-08-05 17:36 UTC
From: cyberline@php.net Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: Filter related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Debian 10.4
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2020-07-07 07:20 UTC] cyberline@php.net
Description:
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In all PHP Versions except 5.3.2 the following Script will return false for FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL while FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL does NOTHING to the input email.

While the Provided email is a valid return path, i excpect that VALIDATE_EMAIL will return the string provided and not false.

Test script:
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<?php

$email = '3e9.1c.4UB2NC76N436-3SP03.test-EW3LBM-M6H4BG-0-1.mobil.123456.989=test.de@smtp20.test.com';
var_dump(\filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL));
var_dump($email === \filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL));

Expected result:
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string(89) "3e9.1c.4UB2NC76N436-3SP03.test-EW3LBM-M6H4BG-0-1.mobil.123456.989=test.de@smtp20.test.com"
bool(true)

Actual result:
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bool(false)
bool(true)

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 [2021-08-05 17:36 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2021-08-05 17:36 UTC] cmb@php.net
Well, this is not a bug.  FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL is documented[1]
to:

| Remove all characters except letters, digits and
| !#$%&'*+-=?^_`{|}~@.[].

while FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL rejects addresses with local parts of
more than 64 bytes (not yet documented, see bug #78598).

[1] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.php>
 
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