Bug #72301 [Com]: filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) does not support scheme-relative URLs

From: Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 02:22:45 +0000
Subject: Bug #72301 [Com]: filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) does not support scheme-relative URLs
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 ID:                 72301
 Comment by:         ihipop+php at gmail dot com
 Reported by:        ian+php at ians-net dot co dot uk
 Summary:            filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) does not
                     support scheme-relative URLs
 Status:             Open
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            Filter related
 Operating System:   OpenBSD
 PHP Version:        7.0.7
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

I think a new flag should be add to obey the RFC3986,and compatible with the old behavior


Previous Comments:
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[2016-06-30 15:18:49] apokryfos84 at gmail dot com

The problem is that FILTER_VALIDATE_URL uses RFC 2396 which is older than RFC 3986. This would have
been OK if the language was consistent in the URL RFC it was using, however parse_url seems to be
using RFC3986, making the following code to behave unexpectedly. 

if (filter_var($url,FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
    $parts = parse_url($url);
} 

Note: I am only assuming that parse_url uses RFC 3986 because there's a link to it in the
"see also" links of http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

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[2016-05-31 10:07:05] derick@php.net

If this gets added, it should be done with an optional (off by default) new flag.

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[2016-05-31 09:26:53] ian+php at ians-net dot co dot uk

Description:
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RFC3986 allows scheme relative URLs, also termed network-path references. These are commonly used to
ensure the appropriate protocol is used to fetch the resource regardless of whether the resource is
embedded in a http or https page.

filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) does not correctly validate these URLs

See also
 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-4.2
 https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#syntax-url-scheme-relative

Test script:
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var_dump(filter_var("//google.com/", FILTER_VALIDATE_URL));



Expected result:
----------------
bool(true)

Actual result:
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bool(false)


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