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Igor Wiedler
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Transcript
the HttpKernelInterface is a lie
@igorwesome
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“Interface” Protocol Communication Message passing
Catherine Please, from The Noun Project
Paulo Sá Ferreira - Purple Matter, from The Noun Project
hi!
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1001010111010010000110101 Massimiliano Mauro, from The Noun Project
Sergey Shmidt, from The Noun Project aloha!
yay!
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foo bar baz foo baz Patrick n Hawaii, from The
Noun Project
foo moo Anuar Zhumaev, from The Noun Project
find src -name '*.php' | grep -iv tests | cut
-f2- -d/ | cut -f1 -d\. | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n | tr / \\ ;
Tim Boelaars, from The Noun Project
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nc
/\_/\ / 0 0 \ ====v==== \ W / |
| _ / ___ \ / / / \ \ | (((-----)))-' / ( ___ \__.=|___E /
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data Dmitry Baranovskiy, from The Noun Project
xinetd
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/etc/xinet.d/<service> service <service> { disable = no socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp user = <user> wait = no server = /usr/local/bin/<program> }
/etc/xinet.d/fortune service fortune { disable = no socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp user = xinetd wait = no server = /usr/local/bin/fortune }
#!/bin/bash fortune | cowsay
$ nc <host> 7777
$ nc <host> 7777 ______________________________________ < Eat right, stay fit,
and die anyway. > -------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
/etc/xinet.d/cowsay service cowsay { disable = no socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp user = xinetd wait = no server = /usr/games/cowsay }
$ echo 'moo' | nc <host> 7778
$ echo 'moo' | nc <host> 7778 _____ < moo
> ----- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
#!/usr/bin/php <?php while (!feof(STDIN)) { echo transform(fgets(STDIN)); }
cgi
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) [22] allows an HTTP [1],
[4] server and a CGI script to share responsibility for responding to client requests. RFC 3875
xinetd tcp http httpd
http httpd script cgi
script env vars data headers data
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: igor.io Accept: */* REQUEST_METHOD = GET
PATH_INFO = / HTTP_HOST = igor.io HTTP_ACCEPT = */* SERVER_NAME = igor.io =>
Content-Type: text/html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> ... </html>
curl => inetd | web | cgi
fcgi
script
sockets are the new pipes
• 1991: HTTP • 1993: CGI • 1995: PHP •
1996: FastCGI
• 1997: Java Servlet • 2003: Python WSGI • 2007:
Ruby Rack • 2009: Perl PSGI • 2011: Symfony2 HttpKernelInterface
rack
class HelloWorld def call(env) [ 200, {"Content-Type" => "text/plain"}, ["Hello
world!"] ] end end
function helloWorld(array $env) { return [ 200, ["Content-Type" => "text/plain"],
["Hello world!"], ]; }
sapi
$_SERVER header echo exit
HttpKernelInterface
sapi kernel
tcp websocket HTTP/1.1 <soap> {“JSON”}
“legacy” apps: it’s all great until exit;
myths:
myths: caching
myths: caching (use varnish)
myths: caching (use varnish) functional tests
CgiHttpKernel adapter from kernel to cgi functional test “legacy” apps
kernel CGI
kernel CGI anything!
export SCRIPT_NAME=/app.php export SCRIPT_FILENAME=/var/www/app.php export PATH_INFO=/foo export QUERY_STRING="bar=baz&qux=quux" export REQUEST_URI=/foo
export REQUEST_METHOD=GET php-cgi app.php
$kernel = new CgiHttpKernel(__DIR__.'/app'); $request = Request::create('/index.php'); $response = $kernel->handle($request);
var_dump($response->getContent());
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Client; $client = new Client($kernel); $crawler = $client->request('GET', '/index.php');
caution: it’s slow (but could be optimized)
Where is the value?
REQ REP
fcgi roles
authorizer httpd responder filter
rack middlewares
class EmptyDecorator def initialize(app) @app = app end def call(env)
@app.call(env) end end
class CommonLogger def initialize(app, logger=nil) @app = app @logger =
logger end def call(env) began_at = Time.now response = @app.call(env) status, header, _ = response log(env, status, header, began_at) response end private def log(env, status, header, began_at) ... end end
class CommonLogger def initialize(app, logger=nil) @app = app @logger =
logger end def call(env) began_at = Time.now response = @app.call(env) status, header, _ = response log(env, status, header, began_at) response end private def log(env, status, header, began_at) ... end end
class CommonLogger def initialize(app, logger=nil) @app = app @logger =
logger end def call(env) began_at = Time.now response = @app.call(env) status, header, _ = response log(env, status, header, began_at) response end private def log(env, status, header, began_at) ... end end
class CommonLogger def initialize(app, logger=nil) @app = app @logger =
logger end def call(env) began_at = Time.now response = @app.call(env) status, header, _ = response log(env, status, header, began_at) response end private def log(env, status, header, began_at) ... end end
class CommonLogger def initialize(app, logger=nil) @app = app @logger =
logger end def call(env) began_at = Time.now response = @app.call(env) status, header, _ = response log(env, status, header, began_at) response end private def log(env, status, header, began_at) ... end end
HttpKernel middlewares
$app = new CallableHttpKernel(function ($request) { return new Response('Hello World!');
});
class Logger implements HttpKernelInterface { private $app; private $logger; public
function __construct(HttpKernelInterface $app, LoggerInterface $logger) { $this->app = $app; $this->logger = $logger; } public function handle(Request $request, ...) { $response = $this->app->handle($request, $type, $catch); $this->log($request, $response); return $response; } private function log(Request $request, Response $response) { ... } }
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpCache\HttpCache; use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpCache\Store; $app = new HttpCache( $app, new
Store(__DIR__.'/cache') );
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpCache\HttpCache; use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpCache\Store; $app = new HttpCache( $app, new
Store(__DIR__.'/cache') ); use varnish!
App Logger Authentication Session
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CHH simensen igorw
class Foo implements HttpKernelInterface { private $app; public function __construct(HttpKernelInterface
$app) { $this->app = $app; } public function handle(Request $request, ...) { $response = $this->app->handle($request, $type, $catch); return $response; } } 1 2 3
UrlMap $blog = new Silex\Application(); $blog->get('/', function () { return
'This is the blog!'; }); $app = new Stack\UrlMap($app, [ '/blog' => $blog, ]);
Session $app = new CallableHttpKernel(function ($request) { $session = $request->getSession();
... }); $app = new Stack\Session($app);
OAuth $app = new Stack\OAuth($app, [ 'key' => 'foo', 'secret'
=> 'bar', 'callback_url' => 'http://localhost:8080/auth/verify', 'success_url' => '/', 'failure_url' => '/auth', ]); $app = new Stack\Session($app);
OAuth $app = new CallableHttpKernel(function ($request) { $token = $request->attributes->get('oauth.token');
if (!$token) { return new RedirectResponse('/auth'); } $params = $token->getExtraParams(); return sprintf('Welcome @%s!', $params['screen_name']); });
Composition!
$stack = (new Stack\Builder()) ->push('Stack\Session') ->push('Stack\OAuth', [...]) ->push('Foo'); $app =
$stack->resolve($app);
It doesn’t stop there
• Authentication • Debug toolbar • Injected routes • Signed
cookies • Asset management • Force SSL • Error handling
Choose wisely
Michael Rowe, from The Noun Project
• joind.in/8666 • stackphp.com • @stackphp • @igorwesome • github.com/igorw/CgiHttpKernel