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Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? [message #169714 is a reply to message #169704]

Thu, 23 September 2010 19:38

Michael Fesser
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> I searched high and low for a precise answer to this question, and
> haven't found, so here goes.
>
> I have a REST web service written in PHP (installation: Wamp with PHP
> 5.3.0).
> Whether it receives
> http://foo.bar/service?first.second=glob
> or else
> http://foo.bar/service?first_second=glob
> it does exactly the same: it thinks it's receiving first_second.
>
> Basically, dots are changed into underscores in the variable name
> before being dispatched.

It's a relic in PHP from the old days of register_globals. When you have
a parameter named 'foo', it would have ended up as a global variable of
the same name. But some characters are not allowed in variable names,
hence they were replaced with underscores. I don't know if there is or
will be a way to disable this "feature", since it's not needed anymore.

> This is what I found...
>
> http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php
> "The GET variables are passed through urldecode(). "

See the second note and the section "Dots in incoming variable names" on
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php>.

Micha

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		who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: jrobinss on Thu, 23 September 2010 16:32
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 23 September 2010 16:38
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: Twayne on Thu, 23 September 2010 16:47
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: Michael Fesser on Thu, 23 September 2010 19:38
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: Twayne on Sat, 25 September 2010 19:24
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: Michael Fesser on Sun, 26 September 2010 13:43
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: Twayne on Sun, 26 September 2010 16:43
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: MikeB on Sun, 26 September 2010 18:08
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: Michael Fesser on Thu, 23 September 2010 19:38
		Re: who is changing dots into underscores in my variable names in REST? By: jrobinss on Fri, 24 September 2010 08:20

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