Req #54629 [PATCH]: FILTER_VALIDATE_URL rejects IPv6 URLs http://[::1]/

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54629&edit=1 ID: 54629 Patch added by: dtajchreber@php.net Reported by: xmilky+php at gmail dot com Summary: FILTER_VALIDATE_URL rejects IPv6 URLs http://[::1]/ Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: URL related Operating System: amd64 GNU/Linux 2.6.35 PHP Version: 5.3.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The following patch has been added/updated: Patch Name: trunk Revision: 1304796415 URL: http://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=54629&patch=trunk&revision=1304796415 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-05-07 21:26:32] dtajchreber@php.net The following patch has been added/updated: Patch Name: 5_3 Revision: 1304796392 URL: http://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=54629&patch=5_3&revision=1304796392 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-04-29 04:13:36] dtajchreber@php.net "Validates value as URL (according to » http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396), optionally with required components. Note that the function will only find ASCII URLs to be valid; internationalized domain names (containing non-ASCII characters) will fail." RFC 2396 doesn't support IPv6 addresses... would need to implement RFC 2732 checks... flipping to feature request. [1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.validate.php [2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Refinement_of_specifications [4] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-04-29 02:17:43] xmilky+php at gmail dot com Description: ------------ I just came to wonder why the filter extension rejects my IPv6 URLs. For example this returns false even though it's a valid HTTP url: filter_var("http://[::1]:2000/push/thingy", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL); I'm somewhat certain that FILTER_VALIDATE_URL actually used [parse_url](http://php.net/parse_url) behind the scenes to probe for URL correctness. But parse_url itself works perfectly fine on such addresses: Array( [scheme] => http [host] => [::1] [port] => 2000 [path] => /push/thingy So there is some limitation in the filter_var wrapper for _VALIDATE_URL. --- Note that this is a distinct issue to http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48762&edit=2 which was about FILTER_VALIDATE_IP addresses only. Test script: --------------- <?php var_dump(filter_var("http://[::1]/path?qs", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)); ?> Expected result: ---------------- string(20) "http://[::1]/path?qs" Actual result: -------------- bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54629&edit=1