Re: Ask php cli to parse HTTP request

On 11/16/2016 3:50 AM, Aaron Lewis wrote:

I have a file that contains a HTTP request,

GET /xxx.php
Host: xxx
Content-Type: xxx
...

I would like to ask PHP cli to parse the HTTP request from a file, and setup $_FILES, $_POST, $_SERVER etc. What should I do? I'm familiar with PHP extensions, so I'm capable of modifying SAPI myself.

The Ultimate Web Scraper Toolkit over on GitHub can get you about 75% of the way there in pure userland in a few lines of application code with the WebServer class: https://github.com/cubiclesoft/ultimate-web-scraper/ Possible approach: $fp = fopen("/path/to/file.txt", "rb"); stream_set_blocking($fp, 0); $server = new WebServer(); // If you want to allow gzipped/deflated input. //$server->EnableCompression(true); // If you are actually processing file input... //$server->SetCacheDir("/path/to/cache/"); $client = $server->InitNewClient(); $client->fp = $fp; do { $result = $server->Wait(); if (count($result["removed"])) { // File contains an invalid request. // Maybe bail out more gently? echo "Invalid request.\n"; exit(); } } while (!$client->requestcomplete); // Now use $client's public variables 'cookievars' and 'requestvars' to load various superglobals. There isn't a pure structure though for $_GET and $_POST. ... is_uploaded_file(), move_uploaded_file(), sesssions, and other useful built-ins might also not work as expected. Hence the 75% metric from earlier. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President I've got great, time saving software that you will find useful. http://cubiclesoft.com/