Re: [RFC] Add http_(get|clear)_last_request_headers() function

On Wednesday, 3 January 2024 at 14:38, Michał Marcin Brzuchalski <michal.brzuchalski@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gina, > śr., 3 sty 2024 o 14:41 Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.moe> napisał(a): > >> Hello internals, >> >> I would like to propose an RFC to add the functions http_get_last_request_headers() and >> http_clear_last_request_headers() to PHP to replace the magic variable $http_response_header. >> >> Link: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/http-last-response-headers > > I was on the specific documentation page describing this feature Today and was thinking that it > is inappropriate as well. > But my thinking was whether it shouldn't be a part of a stream context instead, something > like this: > > $response_headers; > $context = stream_context_create([ > 'http' => ['response_headers' => &$response_headers] > ]); > $result = > file_get_contents('http://example.com/submit.php', false, > $context); > > This way by ref you get a specific HTTP wrapper running under the hood response headers instead > of just the last one. > Any thoughts about that? I don't understand why the response should be part of the context of a stream. Especially as I'm not aware of anything within the context that changes values after a request? Best regards, Gina P. Banyard