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Operating system: FreeBSD, Windows Server 2008
PHP version:      5.3.8
Package:          Unknown/Other Function
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:Content-Type header is not parsed correctly on HTTP POST request

Description:
------------
HTTP POST is not parsed correctly when the "boundary" parameter of the
Content-Type HTTP header is not the last parameter on the line.

---

Guessing (might be wrong):
In the first case, PHP parses the ";" (and maybe also the rest of the
line)
after the boundary still as part of the boundary value. As a result, the
POST
DATA are not "understood" correctly. However, the following parts from RFC
1521
states clearly that ";" could not be part of the boundary:
tspecials :=  "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@"
                /  "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <">
                /  "/" / "[" / "]" / "?" / "="
               ; Must be in quoted-string,
               ; to use within parameter values

boundary := 0*69<bchars> bcharsnospace
bchars := bcharsnospace / " "
bcharsnospace :=    DIGIT / ALPHA / "'" / "(" / ")" / "+" /"_"
                 / "," / "-" / "." / "/" / ":" / "=" / "?"

Test script:
---------------
Consider the following call to a PHP script running on an Apache server.
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=BVoyv; charset=iso-8859-1
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 72
Host: example.com

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data"

abc
--BVoyv--

And a corresponding PHP script:
<?php
  print_r(getallheaders());
  print_r($_REQUEST);
?>

In this case, the POST data are not seen on the PHP side, as shown on the
output:
Array
(
    [Connection] => Keep-Alive
    [Content-Type] => multipart/form-data; boundary=BVoyv;
charset=iso-8859-1
    [Accept] => */*
    [Content-Length] => 72
    [Host] => example.com
)
Array
(
)

However, after changing order of parameters in the Content-Type header to:
"Content-Type: multipart/form-data; charset=iso-8859-1; boundary=BVoyv"
the script output is as expected (notify appearing of the [data] line):
Array
(
    [Connection] => Keep-Alive
    [Content-Type] => multipart/form-data; charset=iso-8859-1;
boundary=BVoyv
    [Accept] => */*
    [Content-Length] => 72
    [Host] => example.com
)
Array
(
    [data] => abc
)



Expected result:
----------------
Both cases should be equal to each other.

Actual result:
--------------
In the first case, the "data" parameter is not available to the script.

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