Bug #75829 [Com]: cURL and file_get_contents does not work with URL containing special character

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75829&edit=1 ID: 75829 Comment by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Reported by: marco dot marsala at live dot it Summary: cURL and file_get_contents does not work with URL containing special character Status: Open Type: Bug Package: URL related Operating System: both Ubuntu and Windows PHP Version: 7.2.1 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out PHP is a programming language and not a artificial intelligence hence you are responsible as programmer to encode input as needed and have such chars in a URL/filename is bad practice anyways Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-01-17 07:59:09] marco dot marsala at live dot it I don't think is a duplicate of #48550 but a much broader vision of the issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-01-17 07:52:57] marco dot marsala at live dot it Description: ------------ cURL and file_get_contents does not work with URL contanining special characters (for example: accented letters, quotes). The URL sent to the remote server is badly encoded; special characters should be encoded as urlencode() would, like any modern web browser does. Test script: --------------- $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.astegiudiziarie.it/vendita-asta-appartamento-genova-via-san-giovanni-d'acri-14-1360824"); echo curl_exec($ch); // got server error page echo file_get_contents("https://www.astegiudiziarie.it/vendita-asta-appartamento-genova-via-san-giovanni-d'acri-14-1360824"); // got server error page // my function to fix encoding function urlencode_parts($url) { $parts = parse_url($url); $parts['path'] = implode('/', array_map('urlencode', explode('/', $parts['path']))); $url = new \http\Url($parts); return $url->toString(); } $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, urlencode_parts("https://www.astegiudiziarie.it/vendita-asta-appartamento-genova-via-san-giovanni-d'acri-14-1360824")); echo curl_exec($ch); // now ok echo file_get_contents(urlencode_parts("https://www.astegiudiziarie.it/vendita-asta-appartamento-genova-via-san-giovanni-d'acri-14-1360824")); // now ok Expected result: ---------------- The script should download the same page you can see with a web browser. Actual result: -------------- The server replies with a server error page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75829&edit=1