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Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:08:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Improvements to HTTP stream metadata
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:18, David Z=C3=BClke <david.zuelke@bitextender.co=
m> wrote:
> On 01.07.2011, at 01:29, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 6/30/11 2:34 PM, Michael Maclean wrote:
>>> The same data also ends up in the bizarre $http_response_headers var
>>> that gets spontaneously created in local scope - I've wondered about ho=
w
>>> good that is to do.
>>
>> This thing is indeed bizzare. I wonder if anybody uses it and why it was=
 done this way...
>
> I've used it before... IIRC, it was because that var gets set on older PH=
P versions even if the HTTP response is an error (in which case the stream =
is destroyed and you can't get the metadata anymore either; newer versions =
have the "ignore_errors" context option for that).
>

I use it extensively. Its nearly the only way to get the headers from
file_get_contents() for example.

-Hannes