Http request

A minimalistic http/curl request interface that was part of the Semantic MediaWiki code base and is now being deployed as independent library.

This library provides:

• HttpRequest interface
• CurlRequest as cURL implementation of the HttpRequest
• CachedCurlRequest to support low-level caching on repeated CurlRequest requests
• MultiCurlRequest to make use of the cURL multi stack feature
• SocketRequest to create asynchronous socket connections

Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or later

Installation

The recommended installation method for this library is by adding the dependency to your composer.json.

{
	"require": {
		"mediawiki/http-request": "~2.0"
	}
}

Usage

use Onoi\HttpRequest\CurlRequest;
use Onoi\HttpRequest\Exception\BadHttpResponseException;
use Onoi\HttpRequest\Exception\HttpConnectionException;

class Foo {

	private $curlRequest = null;

	public function __constructor( CurlRequest $curlRequest ) {
		$this->curlRequest = $curlRequest;
	}

	public function doMakeHttpRequestTo( $url ) {

		$this->curlRequest->setOption( CURLOPT_URL, $url );

		if ( !$this->curlRequest->ping() ) {
			throw new HttpConnectionException( "Couldn't connect" );
		}

		$this->curlRequest->setOption( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

		$this->curlRequest->setOption( CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
			'Accept: application/x-turtle'
		) );

		$response = $this->curlRequest->execute();

		if ( $this->curlRequest->getLastErrorCode() == 0 ) {
			return $response;
		}

		throw new BadHttpResponseException( $this->curlRequest );
	}
}

$httpRequestFactory = new HttpRequestFactory();

$instance = new Foo( $httpRequestFactory->newCurlRequest() );
$response = $instance->doMakeHttpRequestTo( 'http://example.org' );

OR

$cacheFactory = new CacheFactory();

$compositeCache = $cacheFactory->newCompositeCache( array(
	$cacheFactory->newFixedInMemoryLruCache( 500 ),
	$cacheFactory->newDoctrineCache( new \Doctrine\Common\Cache\RedisCache() )
) );

$httpRequestFactory = new HttpRequestFactory( $compositeCache );
$cachedCurlRequest = $httpRequestFactory->newCachedCurlRequest();

// Responses for a request with the same signature (== same endpoint and same query
// content) will be cached if the request was successful for a specified 1 h (3600 sec)
$cachedCurlRequest->setOption( ONOI_HTTP_REQUEST_RESPONSECACHE_TTL, 60 * 60 );

$instance = new Foo( $cachedCurlRequest );
$response = $instance->doMakeHttpRequestTo( 'http://example.org' );

Contribution and support

If you want to contribute work to the project you can:

• File an issue
• Submit a pull request

A list of people who have made contributions in the past can be found here.

Tests

The library provides unit tests that covers the core-functionality normally run by the continuous integration platform. Tests can also be executed manually using the PHPUnit configuration file found in the root directory.

Release notes

2.0.0 (2022-12-13)

• Increased minimum PHP requirement to 8.0

1.3.1 (2017-01-14)

• Extended SocketRequest to match a possible TLS port

1.3.0 (2015-11-23)

• Deprecated CachedCurlRequest::setCachePrefix and CachedCurlRequest::setExpiryInSeconds in favor of setting it via the option ONOI_HTTP_REQUEST_RESPONSECACHE_PREFIX and ONOI_HTTP_REQUEST_RESPONSECACHE_TTL (any change in the expiry will auto-invalidate existing items in cache)
• Deprecated CachedCurlRequest::isCached in favor of CachedCurlRequest::isFromCache

1.2.0 (2015-11-09)

• Added "wasAccepted" to the SocketRequest response output
• Added option ONOI_HTTP_REQUEST_FOLLOWLOCATION to support resetting the URL location in case of a 301 HTTP response during a SocketRequest::ping request

1.1.0 (2015-09-12)

• Renamed AsyncCurlRequest to MultiCurlRequest
• Deprecated MultiCurlRequest::setCallback and to be replaced by MultiCurlRequest::setOption( ONOI_HTTP_REQUEST_ON_COMPLETED_CALLBACK, ... )
• Added SocketRequest to create asynchronous socket connections

1.0.0 (2015-07-22, initial release)

• Added the HttpRequest interface
• Added the CurlRequest implementation
• Added the CachedCurlRequest to extend the CurlRequest implementation
• Added the AsyncCurlRequest implementation

License

GNU General Public License 2.0 or later.