Bug #53198 [Csd->Asn]: "From:" header sent on http request when using stream_context.

From: Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:02:32 +0000
Subject: Bug #53198 [Csd->Asn]: "From:" header sent on http request when using stream_context.
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 ID:                 53198
 Updated by:         pajoye@php.net
 Reported by:        RQuadling at GMail dot com
 Summary:            "From:" header sent on http request when using
                     stream_context.
-Status:             Closed
+Status:             Assigned
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            Streams related
 Operating System:   Windows XP SP3
 PHP Version:        5.3SVN-2010-10-29 (SVN)
 Assigned To:        cataphract
 Block user comment: N

 New Comment:

Re open it, see my comment here: http://news.php.net/php.internals/50008


Previous Comments:
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[2010-10-29 17:38:07] cataphract@php.net

This bug has been fixed in SVN.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.



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[2010-10-29 17:37:57] cataphract@php.net

Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of cataphract
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=304986
Log: - Documented that the INI setting "from" is used to
populate the From
  header in connections with the http wrapper.
- Addresses bug #53198.

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[2010-10-29 17:29:17] cataphract@php.net

Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of cataphract
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=304985
Log: - Fixed bug #53198 (changing INI setting "from" with
ini_set did not have any
  effect)
#Made "from" a proper INI setting and bound it to a global
variable.
#Previously, it was simply read from the hash table with the parsed ini
file
#by using cfg_get_string (I wonder why this mechanism still exists...)

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[2010-10-29 10:24:21] RQuadling at GMail dot com

Using ini_set('from', 'junk@junk.com'); has no effect on the output in 
WireShark.

Using ...


<?php
ini_set('from', 'noone@home.com');
file_get_contents(
	'http://www.php.net/Test1',
	False,
	...

shows 


GET /Test1 HTTP/1.0
From: AutomatecTasks@Bandvulc.co.uk
Host: www.php.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)
AppleWebKit/534.10 
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.18 Safari/534.10

and the response includes ...

Location: http://uk3.php.net/Test1

and that request also includes the From: header.

So, if 'from' is kept as an option, the documentation is out as it is
not a 
PHP_INI_ALL entry.

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[2010-10-29 10:16:18] RQuadling at GMail dot com

This feature was introduced in http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-
src/trunk/ext/standard/http_fopen_wrapper.c?annotate=73428&pathrev=73428#l159,

which is over 8 years ago.

This may not be a code bug but a documentation issue.

Personally, a 'From:' header for a normal HTTP request seems
inappropriate. For 
anonymouse FTP, then maybe/probably.

Attached is a patch to remove the setting from 5.3 and trunk.

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