On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 20:44 +0100, Mikey wrote: > Catalin Trifu wrote: > >Fredrik Tolf wrote: > >>I've begun to be more and more displeased with Apache lately, so I've > >>been thinking of writing my own HTTP server instead. I still want PHP > >>support, but writing a new SAPI for PHP seems like overkill. > >> > >>Therefore, is it possible to use PHP from the command line, but still > >>enable some HTTP-server-only stuff, like GET and POST variables, > >>cookies, session management, file uploads, and so on? I haven't been > >>able to find any docs on doing that, but I'm thinking that it should be > >>possible. > >> > >>So, can someone either point me to some docs in this, or, lacking such, > >>give me a short intro to it? > > > All of the features you mentioned are those provided for you by Apache, > barring the session management. If you really want to write your own > http server then maybe take a look at the Apache source code. It will > either give you some good pointers or make you realise what a huge task > you are undertaking...
Are you sure about this? The way I've understood it, the web server just passes the URL to PHP, and then PHP parses and extracts the GET variables from it and construct an array of them. Likewise, surely the server just passes the content passed by the client browser, and then PHP extracts the POST variables and file uploads, right? I wouldn't think that Apache extracts POST variables and file uploads by itself. Same thing with cookies, right? Surely, the webserver just passes the headers to PHP, which extracts the cookies, right? I would think that it should be possible to pass the URL, headers, and client-passed content to PHP via PHP's CLI interface, to let it do that job. Isn't that possible? Even if not, parsing GET URLs and headers doesn't really seem like a very huge undertaking. I realize that Apache is huge, but that's just because it has so insanely many features -- an HTTP server in itself shouldn't need to be very complex, the way I see it. Thanks for responding! Fredrik Tolf -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
