#47759 [Bgs]: file_get_contents does not decode chunk encoded data
ID: 47759
User updated by: marques at displague dot com
Reported By: marques at displague dot com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: HTTP related
PHP Version: 5.2.9
New Comment:
Chunk encoding is a requirement of HTTP/1.1 clients. If
file_get_contents is going to claim to be able to fetch http streams,
then it needs to come forward about its limitation of HTTP/1.0 on it's
manual page. This can only be inferred by reading the HTTP wrapper
manual. In this way I have reported a documentation bug.
Moreover, the HTTP wrapper should be made to be HTTP/1.1 capable.
Although, in this century, lack of HTTP/1.1 support in an HTTP client is
fairly crippling, this bug can be considered a feature request.
Feel free to change the summary to more appropriately reflect one of
these two bugs. The end result however is the same, file_get_contents
does not decode chunk encoded data.
http://php.net/file_get_contents
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.http.php
Previous Comments:
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[2009-03-24 23:50:25] iliaa@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to
report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
.
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[2009-03-24 13:39:48] marques at displague dot com
Description:
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file_get_contents() does not decode HTTP content sent with
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked". This is probably also true for fopen()
and other HTTP stream handlers in PHP.
RFC2616 section 3.6.1:
All HTTP/1.1 applications MUST be able to receive and decode the
"chunked" transfer-coding, and MUST ignore chunk-extension
extensions
they do not understand.
Reproduce code:
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echo file_get_contents('somechunkedurl.html');
Expected result:
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This is the data in the first chunk and this is the second one
Actual result:
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23
This is the data in the first chunk
1A
and this is the second one
0
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