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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 19:14:36 +0200
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To: "Matthew Weier O'Phinney" <weierophinney@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Are all HTTP headers registered in SERVER?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
<weierophinney@php.net> wrote:
> On 2011-09-08, Karoly Negyesi <karoly@negyesi.net> wrote:
>> It seems to be the case but this is not documented anywhere on
>> php.net. Instead
>> http://php.net/manual/en/function.apache-request-headers.php say "You
>> can also get at the value of the common CGI variables by reading them
>> from the environment".

By the way, it is maybe important to notice that this function is not
apache specific (yes, bad naming). We may alias it and create a new
one called sapi_get_request_headers or something along this line
instead.


> That said, I'd really love to have a method in PHP for retrieving request
> headers, either singly or as a list. Having to parse through $_SERVER has always
> felt hackish.

Yes, a common function for all SAPIs make sense. Let see if we can get
the sapi_get_request/answer_headers in place for 5.4 using exising
ones.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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