Re: Bug in HTTP stream context causes problems in SoapClient/get_sdl()

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 22:43, Giovanni Giacobbi <giovanni@giacobbi.net> wrote: > > The problem turned out to be an invalid interpretation of the HTTP/1.1 protocol with > "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" by the HTTP stream context, which caused get_sdl() to parse a > WSDL including the chunk tags (hex numbers). > > Chunked encoding is used by Apache 2.0 when "Content-Length" is unavailable, the data > content being sent is large enough, and the protocol is HTTP/1.1. > PHP streams do not support chunked encoding, and I assume SOAP doesn't either (although it does reinvent bunch of things, I don't think chunked encoding was added). I thought the docs were quite explicit on the subject.. if not, please open a doc bug. > <?php > $opts = array('http' => array('method' => "GET", > 'header' => "Accept-language: en\r\nConnection: close\r\n")); > $context = stream_context_create($opts); > stream_context_set_option($context, "http", "protocol_version", 1.1); > fpassthru(fopen('http://localhost/ws/catalog?wsdl', > 'r', false, $context)); > ?> Changing the protocol version is "at your own risk". If you want a full real HTTP support, you have to use the pecl/http extension. > 2) Without the "Connection: close" header the stream blocks until http timeout. It > should instead detect the chunk with 0 bytes and return from the fpassthru(). > That however is a valid bug, which I have actually seen couple of times myself.. never debugged it and just assumed I did something weird :] -Hannes