Greetings, "Christoph M. Becker". In reply to Your message dated Monday, July 11, 2022, 22:26:24, > On 11.07.2022 at 21:02, paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> I have two PHP apps on the same (local) box. One handles financial >> transactions (A) and the other handles budgeting (B). I want B to query >> A for information for the budget. So I'm technically querying a remote >> PHP script from within a different "site" and PHP script on the same >> box. Like this: >> >> http://localhost:8000/budget/get_expenses.php queries >> http://localhost:8000/finance/expenses.php >> >> I hope that makes sense. I have "allow_url_fopen = On" in my php.ini. >> There are three ways I've seen to do this: >> >> file_get_contents() >> fopen() >> curl* >> >> Curl is complex, so I haven't tried it yet. >> I've tried file_get_contents() via the PHP development server. Doesn't >> work. Generates an error. >> I've tried fopen() on the PHP development server, but it too fails with >> the same error. The error looks like this: >> >> [Mon Jul 11 14:45:26 2022] PHP Warning: >> fopen(http://localhost:8000/slowen/index.php): Failed to open stream: >> HTTP request failed! in /home/paulf/public_html/budget/test.php on line >> 7 >> >> The call to the "remote" script is on line 7 in test.php above. >> >> Here's the wrinkle: fopen() works if I'm using the Apache server. >> >> For what it's worth, the script being queried should return a PHP array >> in JSON format. The box is an Arch current box. >> >> Can anyone explain why Apache can do this, but PHP's dev server can't? > From the docs[1]: > | The web server runs only one single-threaded process, so PHP > | applications will stall if a request is blocked. > I assume that this is the problem. If it is, you can work around: > | You can configure the built-in webserver to fork multiple workers in > | order to test code that requires multiple concurrent requests to the > | built-in webserver. Set the PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS environment > | variable to the number of desired workers before starting the server. > | This is not supported on Windows. > [1] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php> For Windows, you could start two servers, serving one "website" each. Or query the running server from a script running in command line. -- Sincerely Yours, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@xxxxxxxxx>
