RIP: NSAPI SAPI Plugin (unfortunately -> thanks Oracle)

Hi, you may know that I am the maintainer of the NSAPI SAPI module. I spent a lot of time in improving it. The next update would have been to change it to the PHP 7 threading model, but based on recent experience with Oracle, I will stop maintaining the plugin. We should not remove it from PHP 5, but it should no longer be available for PHP7. The reason for this decision is: - Oracle seems to no longer have any interest in maintaining any public accessible developer downloads, you can now only "order" the product and download installation files (and therefore header files) through their paywall. All references to the OTN (Oracle Technology Network, means developer licenses) downloads were removed completely from their web pages. This happened after I asked a question on their support forums (which was moderated away), where the OTN downloads for the latest version including TLS 1.2 support are located now. This lead to the fact that they disabled the download page completely (and my post was moderated away, which is a really bad behavior, sorry I have to say this!). Somebody there should have known that I am the person who worked closely together with the people working on the iPlanet/Sun Webserver at Sun Microsystems times. This is annoying. - I am also phasing out use of this webserver privately, because the new conditions are unacceptable. In my opinion, this webserver was a great piece of nice and fast software, including - next to PHP - Java web application support inside the webserver, so there was no need to have stuff like reverse proxies needed (the usual Tomcat behind a reverse proxy Apache), because the Java code was running inside the web server (and this made it very fast). Of course, PHP support (when used through the NSAPI plugin) was great, too, because there was no overhead (although some PHP extensions were not compatible, because this webserver runs in a multithreaded way). People that still want to stay on iPlanet webserver can fallback to using FastCGI, which has some pitfalls, but generally works. The NSAPI plugin allowed to do much more like binding PHP script to directory (allowing to make custom PHP-based directory listings), or error pages. This is impossible using FastCGI as far as I know. I am sorry, I have to stop supporting it, because Oracle killed the last piece of good software :-( If there needs to be some decision about removing this plugin through an RFC, I can trigger one, but to me the above changes in Licensing make it impossible to longer support this piece of software. Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler thetaphi@php.net - http://www.php.net NSAPI SAPI developer Bremen, Germany