Hi,
Today I run into some oddity with PHP, which I fail find a proper explanation for in the documentation. Consider the following code:
<?php
echo $_GET['t']. PHP_EOL;
?>
The code is simple - it takes a single t parameter on the url and outputs it back. So if you call it with test.php?t=%5Ca (%5c is a '\'), I expected to see:
\a
However, this is what I got:
$ curl http://localhost/~boaz/test.php?t=%5Ca
\\a
Notice the double slash. Can anyone explains what's going on and give recipe for retrieving the strings as it was supplied on the URL?
Thanks, Boaz
PS. I'm using PHP 5.2.11