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Fast and flexible HTTP client for PHP 5.2+

2.0.2(12y ago)14582[1 issues](https://github.com/ehough/shortstop/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/ehough/shortstop/pulls)1MPL-2.0PHPPHP >=5.2

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shortstop
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[](#shortstop)

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**This library is no longer maintained.** Fast and flexible HTTP client for PHP 5.2+.

### Motivation

[](#motivation)

Today we can choose from a number of excellent HTTP client libraries for PHP. However, they all assume a particular configuration of the underlying PHP installation. e.g. [Guzzle](http://guzzlephp.org/) requires [cURL](http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php). This presents a problem if you want to ship code that can be run on an arbitrary PHP server.

`shortstop` mitigates this problem by dynamically selecting the best underlying HTTP mechanism for the server's environment. As a result, `shortstop` works on virtually any PHP 5.2+ installation.

### Features

[](#features)

- Compatible with PHP 5.2+
- Supports [cURL](http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php), PHP's [HTTP extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.http.php), [fsockopen()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php), [fopen()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php), and [streams](http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.stream.php)
- HTTP 1.0 only (for now!)
- Strong support for HTTP content compression. Exact mechanism (deflate, gzip, etc) determined by server environment
- Built-in chunked-transfer decoding
- Highly configurable and extensible via an [event dispatcher compatible with Symfony's event dispatcher](https://github.com/ehough/tickertape)
- Heavily tested with excellent code coverage

### Usage

[](#usage)

As you can see below, the trade-off for all the flexibility of `stash` is that assembling the components can be quite verbose. Using an inversion-of-control container can help, as the actual client can be reused as a singleton. If, however, you'd like to use `stash` on its own then you can follow the code below.

```
//build an event dispatcher
$eventDispatcher = new ehough_tickertape_EventDispatcher();  //implements ehough_tickertape_EventDispatcherInterface

//build an HTTP message parser
$httpMessageParser = new ehough_shortstop_impl_exec_DefaultHttpMessageParser();

//build a chain of HTTP transport mechanisms
$chain = new ehough_chaingang_impl_StandardChain();
$chain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_exec_command_CurlCommand($httpMessageParser, $eventDispatcher));
$chain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_exec_command_ExtCommand($httpMessageParser, $eventDispatcher));
$chain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_exec_command_FopenCommand($httpMessageParser, $eventDispatcher));
$chain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_exec_command_FsockOpenCommand($httpMessageParser, $eventDispatcher));
$chain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_exec_command_StreamsCommand($httpMessageParser, $eventDispatcher));

//build the HTTP client
$client = new ehough_shortstop_impl_DefaultHttpClient($eventDispatcher, $chain);

//build a chain of HTTP content decoders
$contentDecodingChain = new ehough_chaingang_impl_StandardChain();
$contentDecodingChain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_decoding_content_command_NativeGzipDecompressingCommand());
$contentDecodingChain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_decoding_content_command_SimulatedGzipDecompressingCommand());
$contentDecodingChain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_decoding_content_command_NativeDeflateRfc1950DecompressingCommand());
$contentDecodingChain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_decoding_content_command_NativeDeflateRfc1951DecompressingCommand());

//build an HTTP content decoder
$httpContentDecoder = new ehough_shortstop_impl_decoding_content_HttpContentDecodingChain($contentDecodingChain);

//add some HTTP request listeners
$eventDispatcher->addListener(ehough_shortstop_api_Events::REQUEST,
    array(new ehough_shortstop_impl_listeners_request_RequestDefaultHeadersListener($httpContentDecoder), 'onPreRequest'));
$eventDispatcher->addListener(ehough_shortstop_api_Events::REQUEST,
    array(new ehough_shortstop_impl_listeners_request_RequestLoggingListener(), 'onPreRequest'));

//build a chain of HTTP transport decoders
$transferDecodingChain = new ehough_chaingang_impl_StandardChain();
$transferDecodingChain->addCommand(new ehough_shortstop_impl_decoding_transfer_command_ChunkedTransferDecodingCommand());

//build an HTTP transport decoder
$httpTransferDecoder = new ehough_shortstop_impl_decoding_transfer_HttpTransferDecodingChain($transferDecodingChain);

//add some HTTP response listeners
$eventDispatcher->addListener(ehough_shortstop_api_Events::RESPONSE,
    array(new ehough_shortstop_impl_listeners_response_ResponseDecodingListener($httpTransferDecoder, 'Transfer'), 'onResponse'));
$eventDispatcher->addListener(ehough_shortstop_api_Events::RESPONSE,
    array(new ehough_shortstop_impl_listeners_response_ResponseDecodingListener($httpContentDecoder, 'Content'), 'onResponse'));
$eventDispatcher->addListener(ehough_shortstop_api_Events::RESPONSE,
    array(new ehough_shortstop_impl_listeners_response_ResponseLoggingListener(), 'onResponse'));

//build a new HTTP request
$request = new ehough_shortstop_api_HttpRequest('GET', 'https://github.com/');

//execute the request
$response = $client->execute($request);

$status = $response->getStatusCode();    //e.g. 200

$entity = $response->getEntity();        // instance of ehough_shortstop_api_HttpEntity
$type   = $entity->getContentType();     // e.g. text/html
$body   = $entity->getContent();         // the actual body of the response
```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~50 days

Recently: every ~64 days

Total

7

Last Release

4687d ago

Major Versions

1.0.3 → 2.0.02013-04-08

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.1.0

2.0.0PHP >=5.2

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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