Home » HTTP » HTTP_Request » Bug #4051

[2005-04-04 12:39 UTC] gormer at opera dot com

Description:
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When doing a request with HTTP_Request it seems like it only pass one variable as the QUERY_STRING to the server although it should be legal to use variables with same name. HTTP_Request is probably breaking the spec with regards to this.

I have seen bug #3260 where a confused developer seems to think they are doing the right thing. http://server/script?var=1&var=2 is perfectly legal. What happens to $_GET is not interesting..the interesting part is that the enviorment variable QUERY_STRING should be right.

According to the CGI specification you shall not do any recoding of what is passed after the ? which HTTP_Request does and therefore probably breaks the spec.

Reproduce code:
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$r = new HTTP_Request("http://server/script?var=1&var=2");
$r->sendRequest();

Expected result:
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HTTP_Request should do the request as stated (http://server/script?var=1&var=2).

Actual result:
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HTTP_Request does the request http://server/script?var=2

It seems like it's overwriting the var instead of passing both to the server. I expect the enviroment variable QUERY_STRING to be set to "var=1&var=2" instead of todays "var=2"

[2005-04-04 12:57 UTC] gormer at opera dot com

Btw. fopen seems to do the right thing. If you do fopen("http://server/script?v=1&v=2", "r") it sends just the expected (v=1&v=2) as the query string.