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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ext/soap and http header
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)



Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Dmitry Stogov wrote:
>> Hi Rasmus,
>>
>> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>>> Dmitry Stogov wrote:
>>>> Hi Brian,
>>>>
>>>> I think you patch does the things you like properly, but why do we need
>>>> such ability? I don't see a use-case.
>>>>
>>>> In case of accepting this patch, we also need to care about duplicate
>>>> headers.
>>> Some web services require custom headers for authentication or to bounce
>>> along information about the originating request in order to do proper
>>> logging and accounting about which top-level users are causing the
>>> backend web services requests.
>>
>> Could you give an example.
> 
> Well, for one a bunch of the internal Yahoo web services require a
> certificate header.  I doubt we are the only Web company who needs to
> authenticate the higher-level users of lower-level web services.
> 
> We are running with Brian's patch now, but I don't really see the reason
> not to make it possible for people to set custom headers on web services
> requests.

I see. It's not a problem. I'll look and probably add the patch on this
week.

Thanks. Dmitry.

> Another example is the Weather Underground API.  They ask you to set the
> User-Agent to your email address so they can contact you if your app
> starts causing them problems.
> 
> -Rasmus