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[HTTP & Networking](/categories/http) 4. / 5. softwarevamp/shortstop ActiveLibrary[HTTP & Networking](/categories/http) softwarevamp/shortstop ====================== Fast and flexible HTTP client for PHP 5.2+ 2.0.2(12y ago)017MPL-2.0PHPPHP >=5.2 Since Sep 16Pushed 12y agoCompare [ Source](https://github.com/softwarevamp/shortstop)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/softwarevamp/shortstop)[ Docs](https://github.com/ehough/shortstop)[ RSS](/packages/softwarevamp-shortstop/feed)WikiDiscussions develop Synced 3d ago READMEChangelogDependencies (6)Versions (9)Used By (0) shortstop [![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/4dafed3950d80d420d28678d5d609487409a16e3e3c086526573f7144c39e368/68747470733a2f2f7365637572652e7472617669732d63692e6f72672f65686f7567682f73686f727473746f702e706e67)](http://travis-ci.org/ehough/shortstop) ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== [](#shortstop-) 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 27 — LowBetter than 49% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity6 Limited adoption so far Community8 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity63 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 92.6% 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 4684d 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 ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7d485f9b314c340286960760ee99e033c6a9fdcf2b085bb2d8182755ab08ef7e?d=identicon)[softwarevamp](/maintainers/softwarevamp) --- Top Contributors [![ehough](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/369261?v=4)](https://github.com/ehough "ehough (25 commits)")[![softwarevamp](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/746953?v=4)](https://github.com/softwarevamp "softwarevamp (2 commits)") ### Code Quality TestsPHPUnit ### Embed Badge ![Health badge](/badges/softwarevamp-shortstop/health.svg) ``` [![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/softwarevamp-shortstop/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/softwarevamp-shortstop) ``` ### Alternatives [friendsofsymfony/rest-bundle This Bundle provides various tools to rapidly develop RESTful API's with Symfony 2.8k73.3M319](/packages/friendsofsymfony-rest-bundle)[php-http/discovery Finds and installs PSR-7, PSR-17, PSR-18 and HTTPlug implementations 1.3k309.5M1.2k](/packages/php-http-discovery)[nyholm/psr7 A fast PHP7 implementation of PSR-7 1.3k235.4M2.4k](/packages/nyholm-psr7)[pusher/pusher-php-server Library for interacting with the Pusher REST API 1.5k94.8M293](/packages/pusher-pusher-php-server)[spatie/crawler Crawl all internal links found on a website 2.8k16.3M52](/packages/spatie-crawler)[react/http Event-driven, streaming HTTP client and server implementation for ReactPHP 78126.4M414](/packages/react-http) PHPackages © 2026 [Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)