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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Ask php cli to parse HTTP request
From: thruska@cubiclesoft.com (Thomas Hruska)

On 11/16/2016 3:50 AM, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> I have a file that contains a HTTP request,
>
> ```
> GET /xxx.php
> Host: xxx
> Content-Type: xxx
> ...
> ```
>
> I would like to ask PHP cli to parse the HTTP request from a file, and
> setup $_FILES, $_POST, $_SERVER etc.
> What should I do? I'm familiar with PHP extensions, so I'm capable of
> modifying SAPI myself.


The Ultimate Web Scraper Toolkit over on GitHub can get you about 75% of 
the way there in pure userland in a few lines of application code with 
the WebServer class:

https://github.com/cubiclesoft/ultimate-web-scraper/


Possible approach:

$fp = fopen("/path/to/file.txt", "rb");
stream_set_blocking($fp, 0);

$server = new WebServer();

// If you want to allow gzipped/deflated input.
//$server->EnableCompression(true);

// If you are actually processing file input...
//$server->SetCacheDir("/path/to/cache/");

$client = $server->InitNewClient();
$client->fp = $fp;

do
{
	$result = $server->Wait();

	if (count($result["removed"]))
	{
		// File contains an invalid request.
		// Maybe bail out more gently?
		echo "Invalid request.\n";

		exit();
	}
} while (!$client->requestcomplete);

// Now use $client's public variables 'cookievars' and 'requestvars' to 
load various superglobals.  There isn't a pure structure though for 
$_GET and $_POST.
...


is_uploaded_file(), move_uploaded_file(), sesssions, and other useful 
built-ins might also not work as expected.  Hence the 75% metric from 
earlier.

-- 
Thomas Hruska
CubicleSoft President

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