Bug #51258 [NEW]: FILTER_VALIDATE_URL thinks dashes/hyphens in host name are invalid

From: Operating system: Debian Lenny using Dotdeb PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: Filter related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:FILTER_VALIDATE_URL thinks dashes/hyphens in host name are invalid Description: ------------ FILTER_VALIDATE_URL does not allow dashes/hyphens in the host name. That's just silly. Test script: --------------- $ php -r 'var_dump(filter_var("http://www.something.com/", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL));' $ php -r 'var_dump(filter_var("http://www.some-thing.com/", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL));' Expected result: ---------------- $ php -r 'var_dump(filter_var("http://www.something.com/", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL));' string(25) "http://www.something.com/" $ php -r 'var_dump(filter_var("http://www.some-thing.com/", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL));' string(26) "http://www.some-thing.com/" Actual result: -------------- $ php -r 'var_dump(filter_var("http://www.something.com/", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL));' string(25) "http://www.something.com/" $ php -r 'var_dump(filter_var("http://www.some-thing.com/", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL));' bool(false) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51258&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51258&r=mysqlcfg