Bug #73425 [NEW]: get_headers() and default GET requests

From: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Operating system: PHP version: 7.0.12 Package: Performance problem Bug Type: Bug Bug description:get_headers() and default GET requests Description: ------------ "By default get_headers uses a GET request" is not common sense especially when you can only change that with stream_context_set_default() other than file_get_contents which has a context param what's the point of that insane default while no server refuses HEAD requests which are logical here by the functions name and behavior - even a httpd with <Limit GET POST> won't refuse HEAD-requests, ours are configzred that way and no, please don't come with identical behavior and using stream wrappers for everything, when soemone wants to do that he can just achieve the same with file_get_contents which has in fact even a sane context param what someone expects froma function called get_headers() is, well, just fetch the headers and not the body which is thrown away and if one implements such a unexpetable default it's not enough that you need to *scroll down* in teh documentation to find that out - common sense and least surprise -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73425&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73425&r=mysqlcfg