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Subject: Improvements to HTTP stream metadata
From: michael@no-surprises.co.uk (Michael Maclean)

Hi,
Currently, if you open an HTTP stream using fopen(), and then call 
stream_get_meta_data() on it, you obtain an associative array within 
which as another with the key 'wrapper_data'. Inside that, there is a 
list of the HTTP headers from the server response. I'd like to make this 
a little more useful as currently I don't believe there's a way to get 
the response code from the remote end without parsing those headers 
yourself. While this isn't hard, I'd like to make the following changes:

* move the current contents of the wrapper_data array to a key called 
'headers' within wrapper_data;
* Add a 'response_code' key, with the server response code as an integer
* Optionally, add things like the mime type of the response.

Anyone got any thoughts on this? I appreciate it'd be a BC break, but I 
think it might be useful.

-- 
Cheers,
Michael