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duzun/http-socket
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HTTP (<2.0) Requests over Socket - get as close to the socket level as possible

01PHP

Since Oct 19Pushed 6y ago1 watchersCompare

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HTTP (<2.0) Requests over Socket - get as close to the socket level as possible

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use duzun\HttpSocket;

$http = new HttpSocket(
        // host / URL
        'https://httpbin.org/path',
        // Options
        array(
            'timeout'     => 7,
            'decode'      => true,  // accept gzip'ed response & decode it
            'redirects'   => 3,     // follow up to 3 redirects
            'close'       => false, // keep-alive
            'use_cookies' => true,  // parse cookies
        ),
        // Request Headers
        array(
            'Accept'     => 'application/json,*/*;q=0.8',
            // 'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; '.HttpSocket::class.'/'.HttpSocket::VERSION.'; +https://github.com/duzun/http-socket.php)',
        ),
        // Request Body
        ''
    );

// $res === $http if there was no redirect
$res = $http
    ->setOption('decode', false) // if we need .headers.CONTENT_LENGTH to equal the actual body size
    ->setOption('method', 'GET')
    ->setPath('/get')
    // ->open() // auto-open on first use
    ->writeHead([
        'origin' => 'https://httpbin.org/'
    ])
    // ->write('request body', ['header' => 'value']) // auto-write on first read
    ->read()
    // ->close() // auto-closes on __destruct
;

// write & read automatically on get*()
$headers = $res->getCode();
$headers = $res->getHeaders();
$body    = $res->getBody();

// The response
$res->code    === 200;
$res->headers === [
    'content-type' => 'application/json',
    'date' => 'Sat, 19 Oct 2019 20:58:18 GMT',
    'content-length' => '402',
    'connection' => 'keep-alive',
    // ...
];
$res->body    === '...';
$res->url     === 'https://httpbin.org/get';
$res->phases  === [
    'open' => 442908,
    'writeHead' => 18,
    'readHead' => 132561,
    'readBody' => 6,
    'total' => 575607,
];

unset($res); // auto-calls $res->close();
```

###  Health Score

17

—

LowBetter than 6% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity1

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity35

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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