Re: http streams can't be filtered?

It should not happen, and there is code in the http opener that *should* avoid this, because it has negative implications for including files via http. I will take a look when I have more time... --Wez. On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Sara Golemon wrote: > Wez, > > After our short discussion in IRC today I decided to try and put together > a simple implementation of that filter wrapper. What I came up with can be > seen here: > http://frankenbox.alphaweb.net/test/php.filter.diff.txt but > it's > not something I'm suggesting be commited, just a quick exercise to open my > brain to thinking about implications... There's also the fact it's working > on the current single filter chain model rather than the asymetric filter > chains you've got planned. > > Now, the point I've managed to completely skirt around.... I discovered > something a little disturbing about the http wrapper (and presumably other > network wrappers as well). The following script (with or without the above > patch applied) will *NOT* uppercase the content retrieved from the url > because the content is read into buffer immediately (on the fopen call) and > the filter isn't applied until the next line. > > <?php > $fp = fopen("http://www.php.net/", "r"); > /* the data is already sitting in buffer */ > stream_filter_append($fp, "string.toupper"); > while ($str = fgets($fp)) > print $str; > fclose($fp); > ?> > > Presumably you're aware of this? > > -Pollita > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >