Bug #14793: Hash returned from CGI.parse has [] as default value

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN

[avit (Andrew Vit)]

Is there a valid reason for this behaviour? It looks like a bug to me:

require 'cgi'

params = CGI.parse("")
params["x"]
#=> []

(Expected nil)

I looked at history and it looks like it has been there from the very beginning of cgi.rb.

[avit (Andrew Vit)]

My mistake, it looks like all CGI values are always returned as arrays:

CGI.parse("x=y")
#=> {"x"=>["y"]}

Please close.

[tonytonyjan (Weihang Jian)]

FYI: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/fef8339f582b125e1fec5f3d47adbb48f7cede92/lib/cgi/core.rb#L393

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed