URL Problem

condoug

Hi all

Last chance saloon.

I have a script running on 2 different servers which consists of the following PHP code:

<?php

echo $_GET['crypt'];

?>

Simple and straight forward yes? When I run this on one of my hosting company servers as such:

myscript.php?crypt=1234=

I see the '1234=' displayed in the browser as you would expect, however on my other server, nothing is displayed in the browser unless i remove the last equal sign from the equation.

Has anyone any idea why this would happen?

I need to be able to pass 'equal signs' as part of an encrypted string along my URL but the server doesnt seem to allow it. It only works if i remove them (which is not an option for me to do)

Any thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Doug

devinemke

[man]urlencode[/man]
[man]urldecode[/man]

condoug

That was my first thought but it makes no difference whatsoever.

Stumped. Stumped. Stumped.

I can only assume it is a server config problem.

laserlight

What did you try? Kindly provide the smallest and simplest runnable script that demonstrates the problem.

condoug

Hi Laserlight

Here is the link to the script:
http://www.xopowertuning.co.uk/test.php?crypt=1234

If you add an equal sign to the end, the string cannot be echoed in the browser for some reason. I have no idea why. When I run this scrip ton my local machine or on my other hosting packages for other sites, the script runs perfectly fine.

This is the entire contents of my kristest.php file:

<?php
	session_start();

$test = $_REQUEST['crypt'];
echo "Encrypted String: " . $test;
?>

Many thanks for reading.

Kudose

Using FireFox, the output is "Encrypted String: 1234"

Kudose

Probably because = is a special character in a query string

http://www.xopowertuning.co.uk/test.php?crypt=1234%3D works just fine.

condoug

Hi Kudose

The thing is, is that the people who send me the string (www.protx.com) actually send it with equal signs and not converted into special characters.

Is there a way I can edit my script to convert it?

This is my problem you see, they send me the equal signs at the end of the string and I cant capture it for some reason on this server.

Thanks

Kudose

I'm not sure how you would resolve this.

Since you have no control over the request and the request is invalid, you might be S.O.L. I am interested to see what the more seasoned people have to say though.