Re: New Standardized HTTP Interface

> On 30 Oct 2014, at 20:33, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, this proposal is intended to do two things. 1) Fix the aforementioned problems. By the sounds of things, it doesn’t fix these problems, it just adds a new interface which lacks them. That’s not the same thing. > 2) Improve upon the capabilities of PHP's request handling for future use cases through a > unified interface. What unified interface? You’re allowing anyone and everyone to implement their own request handling. > If you consider all of the major existing PHP frameworks today there is always some form of > HttpRequest class handling these things and almost all of them do it slightly differently. > What's worse, is they are all very inefficient implementations that I believe can be done far > more efficiently in php-src. A lost of them are also unnecessarily complex. I think all of this can > be simplified if the interface is just laid out in a straight-forward manner and then userland > implementations will find less and less reason to over-engineer the implementation. The only reason an implementation of HttpRequest would be inefficient is because it has to work-around problems with $_GET and $_POST. Problems we could simply fix. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/