I don’t want to restart any previous threads, but I’d like to get/restart the conversation going with the pecl/http RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pecl_http <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pecl_http>.
Recent conversations regarding https://wiki.php.net/rfc/http-interface <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/http-interface> make this approach far more realistic and approachable. I think discussions regarding the two should be hashed, and one or the other come out on top. They have competing aspects, but pecl/http has a proven and well-known interface. It’s high-time, at the very least, that it be considered for core.