Some browsers do. Some versions of IE are buggy when the URL include underscores: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/794243/internet-explorer-ignores-cookies-on-some-domains-cannot-read-or-set-cookies
I think that filter_var must follow the RFC by default. Maybe can we add a flag to allow malformed URL in use in the wild? 2014-09-21 10:42 GMT+02:00 Florian Margaine <flor...@margaine.com>: > Hi, > > According to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51192 , valid URLs cannot > contain underscores. > > The following bug was reported a couple days ago: > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68049 > > The thing is, browsers *do* accept the underscore in URLs. Should the > rfc3986 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.2> be respected, > or > should PHP be lenient like browsers and accept more? > > Regards, > > *Florian Margaine* > -- Kévin Dunglas Consultant et développeur freelance http://dunglas.fr Tél. : 06 60 91 20 20
