#23961 [Bgs->Opn]: arg_separator.output default value not html compliant

ID: 23961 User updated by: wallacebw at yahoo dot com Reported By: wallacebw at yahoo dot com -Status: Bogus +Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: RedHat 8 W/Apache 2.0.40 PHP Version: 4.3.2 New Comment: I DID RTFM... Read my first post... Still no reason to deviate from standards as been provided. You should strive to remain standards compliant. Case and Point... Microsoft It's a simple fix... provide me with an explanation as to why this should not be corrected rather than showing me a work-around for the problem. (which as my first post shows I am already using). If there is an underlying reason for the current setting I would like no know what it is... if not than this is a bug that needs to be corrected. I am not trying to be difficult but rather point out an issue that appears to have been overlooked... Brian Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-02 14:28:23] derick@php.net RTFM :) http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.directives.php#ini.arg-separator.output ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-02 14:09:14] wallacebw at yahoo dot com That is a cop-out answer... If there is no reason to not to comply with the standard than you (the PHP project) should make all efforts to do so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-02 13:27:39] sniper@php.net You can change it yourself very very easily.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-02 13:24:13] wallacebw at yahoo dot com Hello, The default value for arg_separator.output is currently '&' which although functional is incorrect acurding to w3c.org's html 4.01 specification. the correct code to use in links (according to w3c) is the html special char '&'. Is there any reason that this is not the default behavior? i.e. URL's rewritten by PHP's session url rewriter appends '&PHPSESSID=*sessionid*'... odviously *sessionid* would be the true session ID... This will fail the W3C html validator. However if you issue a ini_set("arg_seperator.output", "&"); first (thus replacing '&' with '&') php returns '&PHPSESSID=*sessionid*'. which validates fine. Again, this is not so much a functionality issue.. it's more Of a conformance issue. Thanks, Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23961&edit=1