Doc #52714 [Opn->Csd]: Intro to HTTP subsystem unclear

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52714&edit=1 ID: 52714 Updated by: kalle@php.net Reported by: unsure at tactileint dot com Summary: Intro to HTTP subsystem unclear -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant -Assigned To: +Assigned To: kalle Block user comment: N New Comment: I rewrote parts of the book intro to make it more clear in some places, I even questioned myself on a few of the parts, hope this will make it more clear. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-23 15:52:29] kalle@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of kalle Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=304659 Log: Fixed bug #52714 (Intro to HTTP subsystem unclear) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-08-27 06:30:00] unsure at tactileint dot com Description: ------------ http://php.he.net/manual/en/intro.http.php: the intro to the "HTTP" package is unclear; specifically, there's HTTP that called the PHP script in the first place (incoming), then there's HTTP requests that the script can in turn do before the script returns (outgoing). Does it concern both? or just outgoing? "powerful set of functionality for one of PHPs major applications" - that says to me, the incoming HTTP that called the script to build a web page. That's the major application of PHP. But, I think the package does very little for that, right? "It eases handling of HTTP URLs, dates, redirects, headers and messages," = both incoming and outgoing. " provides means for negotiation of clients preferred language and charset" = incoming "a convenient way to send any arbitrary data with caching and resuming capabilities." => 'send' - do you mean, send as a reply to the incoming request, or send as the data for an outgoing request? "It provides powerful request functionality, if built with CURL support." = outgoing. OK, so if I rolled up my sleeves and read some of it i'd get my answer, but the Intro is supposed to answer big questions like that. And this intro leaves me confused. Thanks, I know docs are hard work, I do a lot of it myself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52714&edit=1