#18776 [Opn->Bgs]: using & instead of "&" causes malformed HTTP_REFERER

ID: 18776 Updated by: markonen@php.net Reported By: rob@pipgroup.com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Variables related Operating System: Win2K PHP Version: 4.2.2 New Comment: Actually I think that W3C recommends either & or just a semicolon as the parameter separator. You are encountering a user agent issue. PHP doesn't parse the Referer header; it's there exactly like the user agent sent it. User agents generally know that a "&" in a href attribute be decoded and a plain "&" sent to the server when accessing the location. It seems that your browser doesn't do this for &. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-07 06:11:56] rob@pipgroup.com when using "&" instead of "&" to separate variables passed through a url causes HTTP_REFERER to include all the url after the first &. According to the W3C & should be used to avoid confusion with & being used as a character entity identifier. This is a big problem when passing variables out of a page for processing on a second page which then uses a header() redirect back to the original page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18776&edit=1