RE: [PHP-DEV] RIP: NSAPI SAPI Plugin (unfortunately -> thanks Oracle)

Hi, > > OK, this looks fine. Maybe we should involve Oracle people. > > Unfortunately, I have no direct contact regarding iPlanet. > > I have good contacts to the Oracle Quality Assurance team in Ireland, > > but that is regarding Java. But those people are not responsible to this > issue. > > > At the time I was investigating on the RFC, there already was a negative > answer from the iPlanet team. So we already knew at that time they won't > support it, it's stated in the RFC. Yes. But they never ever supported the plugin "actively", so this was no real news at the time of the RFC. The SAPI was originally written by Jayakumar Muthukumarasamy, I took over in 2003. At that time there was no FastCGI support in the webserver, so the NSAPI plugin was the only working solution - and a great one (with just the well-known TLS problems, which was PHP's fault, not Sun/Oracle's). I improved it to be as most compliant to the Apache SAPI - it (still) works fine with most Content Management systems and MediaWiki (if you manage to make Rewrite rules of Apache working, that those CMS mostly need; this was fixed in iPlanet 7, where you can have rewrite rules - just with other syntax). In my personal opinion: If you have contact to iPlanet people at Oracle, maybe you should contact them again (or send me the contact details). If they would provide a working (developer) download location for the latest 7.0.21 version (released a month ago with TLS 1.2 support), we could start supporting it. But without any download location, it is impossible to support it. You should also remind them: Although they recommend to use FastCGI, it is impossible to support this webserver from our side without a "developer download" to test. So we can verify that FastCGI works. I would like to have support for handling error pages with FastCGI (so you can present 404 not found pages using PHP or directory listings). All this was possible with the NSAPI plugin, but to test this out with iPlanet and FastCGI we would need a download location. But if they show no interest, let NSAPI die :-( Uwe