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Request #72343 FTP wrapper should re-use connections
Submitted: 2016-06-06 11:47 UTC Modified: 2021-02-04 17:57 UTC
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From: sander at prezent dot nl Assigned:
Status: Open Package: Streams related
PHP Version: 7.0.7 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2016-06-06 11:47 UTC] sander at prezent dot nl
Description:
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Iterating over an FTP directory using \DirectoryIterator and then using the \SplFileInfo is extremely slow. Methods called un the \SplFileInfo object, such as `isDir()` and `isFile()` cause PHP to open a new FTP connection under the hood for every file to retrieve file information.

This issue becomes more apparent when an FTP server is slow during authentication.

Test script:
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<?php

// Some public FTP servers to use
$ftp = 'ftp://speedtest.tele2.net/'; // Fast server
//$ftp = 'ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/';     // Not so fast server

echo "Testing on $ftp\n";

$it = new NoRewindIterator(new DirectoryIterator($ftp));

foreach ($it as $file) {
    var_dump($file->isFile()); // This causes new connections and the slowdown
}

Expected result:
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No constant stream of new FTP connections and better performance. The FTP extension should reuse the connection that was established with the \DirectoryIterator.

Also, since \DirectoryIterator already gets an FTP file listing, it probably already knows what it should respond to isFile()/isDir() and other \SplFileInfo method calls. Can that information not simply be reused?


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 [2016-06-06 11:48 UTC] sander at prezent dot nl
Related: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/18923
 [2021-02-04 17:57 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Summary: SplFileInfo from DirectoryIterator opens new FTP connections +Summary: FTP wrapper should re-use connections -Type: Bug +Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: FTP related +Package: Streams related
 [2021-02-04 17:57 UTC] cmb@php.net
This is not particularly related to SPL, but rather is general
limitation of the FTP protocol wrapper which does not re-use
opened connections.  You see the same bad performance when using
the standard file/dir functions (i.e. opendir()/readdir() and
is_dir()/is_file()).

Basically, what stof already said[1].

[1] <https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/18923#issuecomment-222930229>
 
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