#28319 [NEW]: Query string parsing not respecting semicolon as a delimiter

From: nick at careercast dot com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.3.4 PHP Bug Type: CGI related Bug description: Query string parsing not respecting semicolon as a delimiter Description: ------------ W3C spec indicates that valid separators for name value pairs are "&" and ";". http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2 "We recommend that HTTP server implementors, and in particular, CGI implementors support the use of ";" in place of "&" to save authors the trouble of escaping "&" characters in this manner." This becomes an issue when you are dealing with xml/xsl/xhtml, because you can no longer use: http://host/script.php?var1=bob&var2=jim instead, you have to use: http://host/script.php?var1=bob&amp;var2=jim PHP should follow the W3C recommendation and support ";" as a delimiter for name/value pairs in URLs Reproduce code: --------------- <xmp> <?php print_r ($_GET); ?> </xmp> And then call this script with this query string: ?var1=bob;var2=jim Expected result: ---------------- Array ( [var1] => bob [var2] => jim ) Actual result: -------------- Array ( [var1] => bob;var2=jim ) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=28319&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=28319&r=float