On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:41 PM Claude Pache <claude.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The deprecation RFC lists `apache_request_headers()`, because it is “an
> Apache-specific name is also available in other SAPIs, even though it is
> also available under the SAPI-independent name getallheaders()”.
>
> Have you ever thought about making a more thorough and consistent change
> with other similar functions, instead of just picking one particular
> function because it is the only one in its category that has a documented
> alias? In five minutes, I’m thinking of the following obvious things:
>
> * using a less ambiguous name than `getallheaders()`, given the existence
> of both `apache_request_headers()` and `apache_response_headers()`;
>
> * renaming all `apache_*()` functions that are available in other SAPI
> into a SAPI-independent name;
>
> * treating all `nsapi_*()` functions as well.
>

Thanks for bringing this up. I agree with you, and have dropped
apache_request_headers() from this RFC. This clearly needs a more
comprehensive change. Note that nsapi no longer exists since PHP 7, but
litespeed also has its own variation of these functions as well.

Nikita

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