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Subject: RIP: NSAPI SAPI Plugin (unfortunately -> thanks Oracle)
From: thetaphi@php.net ("Uwe Schindler")

Hi,

you may know that I am the maintainer of the NSAPI SAPI module. I spent =
a lot of time in improving it. The next update would have been to change =
it to the PHP 7 threading model, but based on recent experience with =
Oracle, I will stop maintaining the plugin. We should not remove it from =
PHP 5, but it should no longer be available for PHP7.

The reason for this decision is:

- Oracle seems to no longer have any interest in maintaining any public =
accessible developer downloads, you can now only "order" the product and =
download installation files (and therefore header files) through their =
paywall. All references to the OTN (Oracle Technology Network, means =
developer licenses) downloads were removed completely from their web =
pages. This happened after I asked a question on their support forums =
(which was moderated away), where the OTN downloads for the latest =
version including TLS 1.2 support are located now. This lead to the fact =
that they disabled the download page completely (and my post was =
moderated away, which is a really bad behavior, sorry I have to say =
this!). Somebody there should have known that I am the person who worked =
closely together with the people working on the iPlanet/Sun Webserver at =
Sun Microsystems times. This is annoying.

- I am also phasing out use of this webserver privately, because the new =
conditions are unacceptable. In my opinion, this webserver was a great =
piece of nice and fast software, including - next to PHP - Java web =
application support inside the webserver, so there was no need to have =
stuff like reverse proxies needed (the usual Tomcat behind a reverse =
proxy Apache), because the Java code was running inside the web server =
(and this made it very fast). Of course, PHP support (when used through =
the NSAPI plugin) was great, too, because there was no overhead =
(although some PHP extensions were not compatible, because this =
webserver runs in a multithreaded way).

People that still want to stay on iPlanet webserver can fallback to =
using FastCGI, which has some pitfalls, but generally works. The NSAPI =
plugin allowed to do much more like binding PHP script to directory =
(allowing to make custom PHP-based directory listings), or error pages. =
This is impossible using FastCGI as far as I know.

I am sorry, I have to stop supporting it, because Oracle killed the last =
piece of good software :-(

If there needs to be some decision about removing this plugin through an =
RFC, I can trigger one, but to me the above changes in Licensing make it =
impossible to longer support this piece of software.
Uwe

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Uwe Schindler
thetaphi@php.net - http://www.php.net
NSAPI SAPI developer
Bremen, Germany