Doc #53687 [Com]: Use of colon character in open_basedir paths

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53687&edit=1 ID: 53687 Comment by: luckyluke at softhome dot net Reported by: luckyluke at softhome dot net Summary: Use of colon character in open_basedir paths Status: Feedback Type: Documentation Problem Package: Safe Mode/open_basedir Operating System: linux-2.6 x86_64 PHP Version: 5.3.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Additionally, if you have colons in intermediate elements of a path, like this: /www/foo:80/bar and you specify an open_basedir like "/www" or "/www/", PHP will block any access to the above path. Unfortunately I cannot, at the moment, test this on recent versions of PHP and/or ones without Suhosin installed, but it does replicate perfectly on my PHP- 5.3.15+Suhosin-0.9.33 system. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-05 11:00:51] luckyluke at softhome dot net I was just giving an example. Anyway I did actually try to escape colons with backslashes, and I re-tried now on PHP 5.3.15, without success. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-25 20:25:48] philip@php.net Can you please test that escaping mechanism? Maybe you could also test it within PATH itself ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-07 17:51:25] luckyluke at softhome dot net Description: ------------ Documentation says that on *nix systems open_basedir paths must be separated by colon characters, but it does not say if it is possible and how to include a path containing an actual colon (which is a perfectly valid path on linux, for example). How can I add /foo:bar to open_basedir? Expected result: ---------------- I should be able to know if and how to escape the separator colon, for example with open_basedir = /www\:80:/somewhere_else to add the two directories '/www:80' and'/somewhere_else'. Documentation should tell me I cannot use colons in paths, or tell me how I can use them. (besides, if there isn't any escape possibility it should be added IMHO) Actual result: -------------- Adding a path with a colon inside gets interpreted as two different paths. Official documentation does not help on the matter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53687&edit=1