Hi all. Is there an issue with $_GET not handling a Base64-encoded value correctly? (PHP is 5.1.6)
Am receiving a Base64-encoded value:
theurl.com/index.php?message=xxxxx
echo $_GET["message"];
xxxxx is a Japanese phrase, that has been encoded into Base64. So is using the + symbol:
...OODq+OCou...
but my $_GET is replacing the + with a space:
...OODq OCou...
s marks on my Mac).
earing. My test URL is 230 characters in total, less than the "old" 256 limit.
All I can find online is a reference that PHP will no longer assume that a space is a +:
<http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php#69298>
but my problem is the opposite - the + symbols are there, but the GET is removing them.
(And to add a wrinkle, this then goes into a Joomla! page, whose getVar() command completely removes the +, so I couldn't even do a string replace, as I don't know where the + should have been!)
Tired of looking at the dark red spot on the wall! Thanks.
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