php-developer-list | 2002112

Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug #20308 (Feature Request) From: Sara Golemon (pollita <email protected>)
Date: 11/29/02

>> I disagree with this, the current behaviour is imho wrong.
>>
>> mailto: is a url, rejecting the patch because it introduces a special
>> case, is not a good thing. parse_url() is for _all_ url's, not just
>> http:// url's, and besides, the current syntax for mailto is
>> completely valid, and should be parsed anyway.
>>
>> (ie, a special case shouldn't be required if the url parser was rfc
>> compliant).
>
> PHP's php_url_parse() function is not in any way limited to http:// as
> you claim, it support a large variety of valid URLs, take a look at the
> very extensive test for parse_url() function located here:
> ext/standard/tests/strings/url_t.phpt.
> Even the regular expression described in RFC 2396 does not recognize
> mailto: any differently the our very own parse_url().
>
It looks like php_url_parse can be modified to return user and host for
mailto schemes without making it a 'special case', but that would also
remove the current 'path' index which would break existing PHP code
((bad)).

So we can (A) put in a special case, or (B) not modify the function at
all. Either way leaves someone unhappy so in the absence of a majority I
can't help but do nothing. This request will have to remain open, at
least for now.

-Pollita 

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