#43510 [Opn]: stream_get_meta_data does not return same mode as used in fopen

ID: 43510 User updated by: dz at bitxtender dot com Reported By: dz at bitxtender dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Streams related Operating System: * PHP Version: * New Comment: The simple reason why this must work is because one might want to serialize an object with a file pointer, and that can only be done by grabbing the meta data on sleep, and restoring the stream on wakeup. But fopen() on an HTTP resource with r+ of course gives a warning that the stream does not support writing! I stumbled across this when someone pointed out that in Agavi, it's not possible to cache a response that is streaming content from an HTTP resource. Check http://trac.agavi.org/browser/branches/0.11/src/response/AgaviResponse.c lass.php?rev=2205#L55 for some "real-life" code that relies on this ;) Also, it never hurts to have things working 100% properly ;) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-06 17:26:52] helly@php.net Reopening after discussions. David, please explain the reasoning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-06 13:50:09] helly@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Why should the exact mode matter? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-06 03:15:34] dz at bitxtender dot com Description: ------------ When an fopen() is done on an HTTP URL with mode "r", the stream_get_meta_data() result returns "r+" Reproduce code: --------------- $meta = stream_get_meta_data(fopen('http://www.google.com/', 'r')); var_dump($meta['mode']); Expected result: ---------------- string 'r' (length=1) Actual result: -------------- string 'r+' (length=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-06 02:18:22] dz at bitxtender dot com Description: ------------ When an fopen() is done on an HTTP URL with mode "r", the stream_get_meta_data() result returns "r+" Reproduce code: --------------- $f = fopen('http://www.google.com/', 'r'); var_dump(stream_get_meta_data($f['mode'])); Expected result: ---------------- string 'r' (length=1) Actual result: -------------- string 'r+' (length=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43510&edit=1