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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 02:06:31 +0100
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Subject: CLI Web Server customization
From: ingwie2000@googlemail.com (Kevin Ingwersen)

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Hello everyone.

Currently, I am working on a project that allows PHP applications to be =
developed with a GUI frontend based on Chromium - and later on CEF. For =
this to work properly, I am spawning a new Chromium process with some =
command line switches to allow customization of the launch. This means, =
I can pass in the URL which should be opened, and disable features such =
as translation and alike. However, the problem is the HTTP backend. =
Currently, I am using a PHP script in the same process as the "watching" =
process - which is basically a while loop that awaits for a client =
connection. By using the pthreads extension, I am also handling events =
that are received by the Remote Debug Protocol via a WebSocket =
connection (PHP acting as a client here). As you can see, this is a =
little chaos. So I have the event listener, the Webserver and process =
watcher for Chromium in seperated threads. Once the browser is quit, I =
have to use posix_kill to make sure the webserver dies as well - because =
it simply wouldn't.

So I got to the conclusion that I may change the logic, and remove the =
webserver, and replace it by another spawned process of the PHP CLI HTTP =
server. The problem is, I'd want to customize it some. Like, customize =
error pages, logging, etc.

I am also curios about something else. Back in some time, the PHP manual =
read that the HTTP server is "for development only". The problem is, I =
do not want to package an apache webserver into the bundle - or do some =
nodejs scripting for some webserver. I'd like to stay on a PHP basis.

Would be great if you can explain some things to me here!

Related links for those curios:
The actual project, drag0n: https://github.com/IngwiePhoenix/drag0n
Deskshell (I maintain a fork and build the MacOS port): =
https://github.com/sihorton/appjs-deskshell
The current WebSocket client I am using for communication: =
https://github.com/Devristo/phpws
The Webserver was somewhere on google, the original file can be found =
within drag0n, to be exact, here: =
https://github.com/IngwiePhoenix/drag0n/blob/master/drag0n.app/Contents/Sy=
stem/lib/php/WebServer.php

Kind regards, Ingwie=

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