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Bug #70361 HTTP stream wrapper doesn't close keep-alive connections
Submitted: 2015-08-25 18:04 UTC Modified: -
Votes:1
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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From: me at kelunik dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Streams related
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Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-08-25 18:04 UTC] me at kelunik dot com 
Description:
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Downloading a file with file_get_contents("http://example.com/example.json"); defaults to using HTTP/1.0. RFC compliant servers should respond with a HTTP/1.1 in such a case if they support HTTP/1.1. Some servers initiate a keep-alive connection in that case, resulting a client hang, because PHP waits until the connection is closed instead of relying on the Content-Length header.

This behavior should be fixed in two ways: (1) Always send "Connection: close" – even for HTTP/1.0 requests – and (2) use Content-Length to determine the end of a response and close the connection then.

My attached patch only fixes the first point.

Information regarding relevant spec: http://serverfault.com/a/442978/217277
file_get_contents behavior description: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4240241/2373138

Patches

fix-http-connection-close (last revision 2015-08-25 18:05 UTC by me at kelunik dot com)

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 [2015-08-25 22:05 UTC] me at kelunik dot com 
Patch is outdated, PR contains test fixes and NEWS entry.
 [2015-09-04 14:32 UTC] bwoebi@php.net 
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=4b1dff6f438f84f7694df701b68744edbdd86153
Log: Fix #70361: HTTP stream wrapper doesn't close keep-alive connections
 [2015-09-04 14:32 UTC] bwoebi@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed
 [2015-09-04 14:36 UTC] bwoebi@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of me@kelunik.com
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=4b1dff6f438f84f7694df701b68744edbdd86153
Log: Fix #70361: HTTP stream wrapper doesn't close keep-alive connections
 [2015-09-15 12:13 UTC] ab@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of me@kelunik.com
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=4b1dff6f438f84f7694df701b68744edbdd86153
Log: Fix #70361: HTTP stream wrapper doesn't close keep-alive connections
 [2016-03-03 19:13 UTC] divinity76 at gmail dot com 
note that "fixing" this may actually break code that communicate with dodgy http servers sending the wrong content-length header. the original code will read all bytes until the connection closes, completely disregarding content-length (which, with keep-alive connections, can have huge performance penalties), thus still working if the content-header is incorrect :p not saying this isn't a good thing, just that it IS a edge-case backward-incompatible change
 
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