So for the purposes of this discussion and in an effort to remain on-topic and productive, let's keep all of the FIG/PSR and other third party efforts out of the discussion unless it is intended to improve/help this particular RFC. Please keep in mind that this is a PHP internals discussion and not a FIG/PSR discussion. This RFC is about core PHP and I really don't care how many competing ideas exist out there that are closely or mildly related to this RFC.
This RFC has two primary goals in mind: 1) Expose the parsing/handling of the HTTP request to userland in a consistent way 2) Avoid having the request parsed/mangled at multiple levels during the request by presenting one central place to handle the parsing These goals can not be achieved purely in userland, because you would potentially have to do the parsing step twice. I wish to make it possible for the user to override that with their own implementation just like they can override the Session handler with the Session interface. How we end up deciding to do that may change from my initial proposal, and that's fine, but let's focus on that rather than getting off topic about other third party efforts. Thanks!
