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#21261 [Com]: $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] gives wrong info

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Apr 23, 2003, 10:27:38 PM4/23/03
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ID: 21261
Comment by: flight553 at yahoo dot com
Reported By: undream at yifan dot net
Status: Closed
Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem
Operating System: linux 2.4.18 - slack 8.1
PHP Version: 4.3.0
Assigned To: shane
New Comment:

Change your configure statement to '--enable-discard-path' and then PHp
will not try to fopen whatever the PATH_INFO is.


Previous Comments:
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[2003-04-17 07:38:07] adamski at echtzeit dot com

I just tried PHP 4.3.1 as cgi on SUSE 6.4/Apache 1.3.19 and the bug is
still there. The workaround helps though :)

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[2003-02-07 16:25:42] russ at iris dot washington dot edu

Tilde expansion in URL has same problem on Solaris.

I was able to use the provided workaround:
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] =
substr($_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'],
strlen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']));
if (substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0, 2) == '//') {
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] =
substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 1);
}
to fix the same problem (invalid PHP_SELF) on Solaris 2.7
Sparc, PHP 4.3.0 (fresh).

Simply doing phpinfo(); and then appending the value of
PHP_SELF onto an 'ls ' statement yielded "no such file".

The file did not exist:
$ ls /~russ/tryseed/showSeed.phtml
/~russ/tryseed/showSeed.phtml: No such file or directory

What I can contribute here is this: I was running out
of a "pubic_html" subdirectory off of ~russ (above), and
the URL typed into IE 5.2 (Mac OS X) was:

"http://hostname/~russ/tryseed/showSeed.html"

--Thank you to whoever came up with that workaround above.

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[2003-01-25 16:06:27] sh...@php.net

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

In case this was a PHP problem, snapshots of the sources are packaged
every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can
grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/.

In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at
http://www.php.net/manual/.

In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show
up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites in short time.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

This is now fixed in cvs:
4.3: http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php4/sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c?r=1.190.2.12
5.0: http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php4/sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c?r=1.208

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[2003-01-17 06:36:29] tapken at engter dot de

Sorry, my PHP-Based Workaround seems to be buggy in some cases, too...
Here is a quick & dirty bugfix for the quick & dirty workaround :-)

Btw, it would be nice if the bug is fixed in PHP 4.3.1...

-snip----------------------------------------
// Small Workaround for a bug in PHP 4.3.0/cgi
// See http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=21261 for details

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = substr($_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'],
strlen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']));
if (substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0, 2) == '//') {
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 1);
}

$PHP_SELF =
$SCRIPT_NAME =
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] =
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
-snip------------------------------------

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[2003-01-13 11:41:12] daniel dot gorski at develnet dot org

That (or similar) urgent problem occurs here too. PHP versions before
mid december were not affected IMO.

At first today I've checked out the "php4" and "php5" modules from CVS,
configured, and build them. After installation of the CGI binaries I
detected a problem with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']:

a) the PHP4 version shows "no value"
b) the PHP5 version shows illegal characters, cut off strings with low
ASCII values etc. Depending on the namebased vhost name the value of
PHP_SELF looks like "ind##" instead of "index.php" ("#" should
represent low ASCII chars, which are shown as boxes here) of just "5"
which is definitely the last char of "index.php5". Short: looks like a
pointer on a string array is bent somewhere.

The problem insist with and without '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' in
both versions. As an example you may want to take a look at

http://daniel-gorski.de/index.php4 (PHP4 CGI)
http://daniel-gorski.de/index.php5 (PHP5 CGI)

and compare the values of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']. Additionally the PHP5
version has a strange "Zend Extension" date: 90021012. OTOH this value
seems to be correct in the PHP4 version.

The operating system is Linux (RedHat 6.2).

I would appreciate to see this bug solved as soon as possible, because
this is a dramatic show stopper for a few ZE2 applications I am
developing & running.

What required information can I provide to help to solve this problem?

regards dtg

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