Bug #7649

Net_URL doens't complain about invalid URLs

Details

Submitted	2006-05-17 12:33 UTC
From	mfischer at php dot net
Assigned	davidc
Status	Bogus
Package	Net_URL
PHP Version	Irrelevant
OS	Any
Roadmaps	1.0.15

Comments

[2006-05-17 12:33 UTC] mfischer at php dot net

Description:
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Net_URL accepts invalid URLs like "http://www.netcraft.com/ not allowed". This is evident when you e.g. try to use HTTP_Request to fetch a URL.

Internally, HTTP_Request is passing the URL to Net_URL and Net_URL happily accepts the invalid URL.

Common sense of user agents is that they convert the space, which violates the specs, to e.g. + or %20. This is verified with wget, lynx, FF, IE, Opera.

Because of this the server response differently and very likely not as expected.

It seems related to http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=2991

Test script:
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require_once "HTTP/Request.php";
$req = new HTTP_Request("http://www.netcraft.com/ not found");
$req->sendRequest();
var_dump($req->getResponseCode());

Expected result:
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int(404)

Actual result:
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int(400)