Doc #77807 [NEW]: Misuse of 'i.e.' instead of 'e.g.' in $_SERVER docs

From: Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:35:48 +0000
Subject: Doc #77807 [NEW]: Misuse of 'i.e.' instead of 'e.g.' in $_SERVER docs
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From:             markamery at btinternet dot com
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PHP version:      Irrelevant
Package:          *General Issues
Bug Type:         Documentation Problem
Bug description:Misuse of 'i.e.' instead of 'e.g.' in $_SERVER docs

Description:
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The docs at https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php
state that the REQUEST_METHOD variable contains:

    Which request method was used to access the page; i.e. 'GET',
'HEAD', 'POST', 'PUT'.

Read literally, this seems to mean that it can only ever hold one of
those four specific values, which is of course not true. This apparently
confused at least one person in the past:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/10766284/1709587

To fix this, the "i.e." should simply be replaced by "e.g.".


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