#6685 [Com]: %20 mis-converted in GET mechanism

ID: 6685 Comment by: flystop at gmx dot net Reported By: waldschrott@php.net Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: * PHP Version: 4.0.2 New Comment: The problem is not only the conversion of spaces but all characters not allowed in variable names. With register_globals=Off the keys in the superglobals should not be changed I think. Sometimes it IS important to use the original names (e.g. in my case passing cookie-data to external pages which use dots in cookie names). I do think many people who rely on the translation could have problems if it is removed completely. Maybe a configuration option could be used? This way everybody can decide to use the translation or not. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-02 13:29:50] derick@php.net Seems not important enough to anybody... suspending. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2000-11-21 15:37:35] waldschrott@php.net well why do you think are cased variables needed? why do we need to be able to use variables containg ä,ö,ü etc. I'd say escpecially with variable variables this could be useful in some cases ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2000-11-21 03:35:41] sniper@php.net I think that having spaces in variable names is not a good thing (tm). could someone please explain me how it would be useful at all? --Jani ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2000-09-16 17:59:27] stas@php.net On the second though, you _can_ have variables with spaces (actually, you can name variable with every string you can put into variable), so I don't quite understand the maning of that variable name translation. Do we really need it? Anybody will have problems if we remove it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2000-09-12 13:46:32] waldschrott@php.net since we all (almost) agree that register_globals should be deprecated ASAP and array indices with spaces are legal and URIs containg QUERYSTRING with them too, well at least the $HTTP_GET_VARS array should contain the non-converted information, if register_globals=on this mechanism can be applied for global variables We shouldn´t obscure URI data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/6685 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=6685&edit=1