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Bug #25724 register_long_arrays breaks superglobals
Submitted: 2003-10-02 04:55 UTC Modified: 2004-03-18 09:00 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:3.3 ± 1.2
Reproduced:2 of 3 (66.7%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: kauer at face-online dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-03-15 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-10-02 04:55 UTC] kauer at face-online dot de 
Description:
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Using the binary from snaps.php.net, turning register_long_arrays off in .htaccess will make $_SERVER unavailable.

Reproduce code:
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File: .htaccess
php_flag register_long_arrays off

PHP:
var_dump($_SERVER);

Expected result:
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I expect to see a variable dump of $_SERVER.

Actual result:
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var_dump outputs NULL

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 [2003-11-28 21:20 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Reproducable with this quick'n'dirty way too:

# sapi/cli/php -d'register_long_arrays=off' -r 'var_dump($_SERVER);'
 [2004-01-21 02:03 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Only these superglobals are broken:

$_SERVER
$_ENV
$_REQUEST

All other work fine..
 [2004-01-21 02:05 UTC] sniper@php.net 
And both register_globals and register_long_arrays have to be off to reproduce this!
 [2004-01-27 13:21 UTC] danielc at analysisandsolutions dot com 
Bug 26206 -- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=26206 -- has been marked as a duplicate of this one.
 [2004-03-18 09:00 UTC] zeev@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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/.
 
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