#50562 [NEW]: FILTER_VALIDATE_URL is broken

From: philip@php.net Operating system: N/A PHP version: 5.3.2RC1 PHP Bug Type: Filter related Bug description: FILTER_VALIDATE_URL is broken Description: ------------ While attempting to use FILTER_VALIDATE_URL, I notice it gets negative press. Here's one such piece of press: http://www.talkincode.com/php-filter-filter_validate_url-limitations- 124.html Ideally FILTER_VALIDATE_URL would behave as most would expect, and that's checking if an URL is valid... as most people do with long-ish regular expressions. Please also provide tips for how this should be documented. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50562&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50562&r=mysqlcfg