http

&reftitle.intro; This HTTP extension aims to provide a convenient and powerful set of functionality for one of PHPs major applications. It eases handling of HTTP URLs, dates, redirects, headers and messages, provides means for negotiation of clients preferred language and charset, as well as a convenient way to send any arbitrary data with caching and resuming capabilities. It provides powerful request functionality, if built with CURL support. Parallel requests are available for PHP 5 and greater. Additionally to the API reference in this manual you can find information about how to install and configure as well as which global constants are predefined in the following sections: Installation Configuration Global Constants Resource Types

&extension.classes; The HttpResponse class requires at least PHP v5.1. Any other class is available as of PHP v5.0. Be aware though, that some methods are not available with PHP v5.0. HttpMessage HttpQueryString HttpDeflateStream HttpInflateStream HttpRequest HttpRequestPool HttpResponse

Built-in HTTP related functions previously listed on this page can be found in the networking category. The following functions do not need the HTTP module to be present: header, headers_list, headers_sent, setcookie &listendand; setrawcookie.

http_cache_etag http_cache_last_modified

http_chunked_decode http_deflate http_inflate

http_build_cookie http_date http_get_request_body_stream http_get_request_body http_get_request_headers http_match_etag http_match_modified http_match_request_header http_support

http_negotiate_charset http_negotiate_content_type http_negotiate_language

ob_deflatehandler ob_etaghandler ob_inflatehandler

http_parse_cookie http_parse_headers http_parse_message http_parse_params

http_get http_head http_post_data http_post_fields http_put_data http_put_file http_put_stream http_request_body_encode http_request_method_exists http_request_method_name http_request_method_register http_request_method_unregister http_request

http_redirect http_send_content_disposition http_send_content_type http_send_data http_send_file http_send_last_modified http_send_status http_send_stream http_throttle

http_build_str http_build_url

http_persistent_handles_count http_persistent_handles_ident http_persistent_handles_clean

&reference.http.install; &reference.http.configuration; &reference.http.resources; &reference.http.constants; &reference.http.request-options; &reference.http.HttpMessage; &reference.http.HttpQueryString; &reference.http.HttpDeflateStream; &reference.http.HttpInflateStream; &reference.http.HttpRequest; &reference.http.HttpRequestPool; &reference.http.HttpResponse; &reference.http.functions;