HTTP Functions

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() and setrawcookie().

Function groups

Caching

Encodings

Miscellaneous

Negotiation

Outputhandlers

Parsers

Requests

Responses

URLs

Persistent Handles

http_cache_etag — Caching by ETag
http_cache_last_modified — Caching by last modification
http_chunked_decode — Decode chunked-encoded data
http_deflate — Deflate data
http_inflate — Inflate data
http_build_cookie — Build cookie string
http_date — Compose HTTP RFC compliant date
http_get_request_body_stream — Get request body as stream
http_get_request_body — Get request body as string
http_get_request_headers — Get request headers as array
http_match_etag — Match ETag
http_match_modified — Match last modification
http_match_request_header — Match any header
http_support — Check built-in HTTP support
http_negotiate_charset — Negotiate client's preferred character set
http_negotiate_content_type — Negotiate client's preferred content type
http_negotiate_language — Negotiate client's preferred language
ob_deflatehandler — Deflate output handler
ob_etaghandler — ETag output handler
ob_inflatehandler — Inflate output handler
http_parse_cookie — Parse HTTP cookie
http_parse_headers — Parse HTTP headers
http_parse_message — Parse HTTP messages
http_parse_params — Parse parameter list
http_persistent_handles_clean — Clean up persistent handles
http_persistent_handles_count — Stat persistent handles
http_persistent_handles_ident — Get/set ident of persistent handles
http_get — Perform GET request
http_head — Perform HEAD request
http_post_data — Perform POST request with pre-encoded data
http_post_fields — Perform POST request with data to be encoded
http_put_data — Perform PUT request with data
http_put_file — Perform PUT request with file
http_put_stream — Perform PUT request with stream
http_request_body_encode — Encode request body
http_request_method_exists — Check whether request method exists
http_request_method_name — Get request method name
http_request_method_register — Register request method
http_request_method_unregister — Unregister request method
http_request — Perform custom request
http_redirect — Issue HTTP redirect
http_send_content_disposition — Send Content-Disposition
http_send_content_type — Send Content-Type
http_send_data — Send arbitrary data
http_send_file — Send file
http_send_last_modified — Send Last-Modified
http_send_status — Send HTTP response status
http_send_stream — Send stream
http_throttle — HTTP throttling
http_build_str — Build query string
http_build_url — Build a URL