Request info

Get information about the current HTTP request.

Contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Usage
  • Configuration
    • Trusted proxies
    • Trusted hosts
    • HTTP method override
    • Resetting configuration
  • Getting request information
    • Headers
    • Trusted proxy detection
    • HTTPS detection
    • Client IP address
    • Method
    • Scheme
    • Host
    • Port
    • URL
    • Base directory
    • Base path
    • Path info
    • Script name
  • Internal cache

Features

• getting request information:
  • headers
  • HTTPS detection
  • client IP address
  • scheme
  • method
  • host
  • port
  • URL
  • base directory
  • base path
  • path info
  • script name
• trusted proxy header support (x-forwarded / forwarded)
• host validation (inc. defining specific trusted hosts or host patterns)
• optional HTTP method override support

Requirements

• PHP 7.1+

Usage

All configuration and value retrieval is done via the static Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo class.

Configuration

Trusted proxies

By default all proxy headers are ignored. To trust select proxy headers, call RequestInfo::setTrustedProxies() with an appropriately configured TrustedProxies instance.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;
use Kuria\RequestInfo\TrustedProxies;

$trustedProxies = new TrustedProxies(
    ['192.168.1.10', '192.168.1.20'],  // one or more IP adresses or subnets in CIDR notation
    TrustedProxies::HEADER_FORWARDED   // which headers to trust (bit mask)
);

RequestInfo::setTrustedProxies($trustedProxies);

Choosing which headers to trust

Trusted headers are a bitmask of the following constants:

Constant	Allowed headers
TrustedProxies::HEADER_FORWARDED	Forwarded
TrustedProxies::HEADER_X_FORWARDED_FOR	X-Forwarded-For
TrustedProxies::HEADER_X_FORWARDED_HOST	X-Forwarded-Host
TrustedProxies::HEADER_X_FORWARDED_PROTO	X-Forwarded-Proto
TrustedProxies::HEADER_X_FORWARDED_PORT	X-Forwarded-Port
TrustedProxies::HEADER_X_FORWARDED_ALL	X-Forwarded-*

Note

Trusting both the Forwarded and X-Forwarded-* headers is supported, but they must report the same values. Different values will cause Kuria\RequestInfo\Exception\HeaderConflictException.

Applications always behind a trusted proxy

If you are sure that an application will always be behind a trusted proxy, you can use $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] in place of a hardcoded IP address:

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;
use Kuria\RequestInfo\Helper\Server;
use Kuria\RequestInfo\TrustedProxies;

$trustedProxies = new TrustedProxies(
    [Server::require('REMOTE_ADDR')],
    TrustedProxies::HEADER_FORWARDED
);

RequestInfo::setTrustedProxies($trustedProxies);

Trusted hosts

The request host is always validated according to the standards.

To restrict accepted hosts further, use the following methods:

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

// specific hosts (exact match)
RequestInfo::setTrustedHosts([
    'www.example.com',
    'cdn.example.com',
]);

// host patterns
RequestInfo::setTrustedHostPatterns([
    '{\w+\.example\.com$}AD',
    '{example-node-\d+$}AD',
]);

HTTP method override

By default, the X-HTTP-Method-Override header is ignored.

If you need to override the HTTP method via this header (e.g. because of restrictive firewall rules), you can enable its support:

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

RequestInfo::setAllowHttpMethodOverride(true);

Resetting configuration

To restore default RequestInfo configuration:

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

RequestInfo::reset();

Getting request information

Headers

Get all request headers as an array. Header names are lowercased and used as keys.

<?php

print_r(RequestInfo::getHeaders());

Example output:

Array
(
    [host] => localhost:8080
    [connection] => keep-alive
    [cache-control] => max-age=0
    [upgrade-insecure-requests] => 1
    [user-agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Example)
    [accept] => text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
    [accept-encoding] => gzip, deflate, br
    [accept-language] => en-US,en;q=0.9,cs;q=0.8
)

Trusted proxy detection

Check whether the request originated from a trusted proxy.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

if (RequestInfo::isFromTrustedProxy()) {
    // request is from a trusted proxy
}

HTTPS detection

See whether the request uses HTTPS.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

if (RequestInfo::isSecure()) {
    // request uses HTTPS
}

Client IP address

Get the client IP address.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getClientIp());

Example output:

string(9) "127.0.0.1"

Note

RequestInfo::getClientIp() will return NULL if the client IP address is not known (e.g. in CLI).

To get all known client IP addresses (ordered from most trusted to least trusted), use getClientIps():

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

print_r(RequestInfo::getClientIps());

Example output:

Array
(
    [0] => 20.30.40.50
    [1] => 10.20.30.40
)

Note

RequestInfo::getClientIps() will return an empty array if the client IP addresses are not known (e.g. in CLI).

Method

Get the request method. The method name will always be in uppercase.

Also see HTTP method override.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getMethod());

Example output:

string(3) "GET"

Scheme

Get the request scheme.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getScheme());

Example output:

string(4) "https"

Host

Get the host name.

Also see Trusted hosts.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getHost());

Example output:

string(9) "localhost"

Note

The returned host name does not include the port number. Use RequestInfo::getPort() to get the port number or RequestInfo::getUrl()->getFullHost() to get the host name with the port number (if it is non-standard).

Port

Get the port number.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getPort());

Example output:

int(80)

URL

Get the request URL. Returns an unique instance of Kuria\Url\Url.

See the kuria/url component for more information.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

$url = RequestInfo::getUrl();

echo
    "URL:\t", $url->build(), PHP_EOL,
    "Scheme:\t", $url->getScheme(), PHP_EOL,
    "Host:\t", $url->getHost(), PHP_EOL,
    "Port:\t", $url->getPort(), PHP_EOL,
    "Path:\t", $url->getPath(), PHP_EOL,
    "Query:\t", json_encode($url->getQuery()), PHP_EOL;

Example output:

URL:    http://localhost:8080/test/index.php/foo?bar=baz
Scheme: http
Host:   localhost
Port:   8080
Path:   /test/index.php/foo
Query:  {"bar":"baz"}

Base directory

Get base directory (without script name, if any). The returned path never ends with a "/".

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getBaseDir());

Examples:

URL	Base directory
http://localhost/index.php	(empty string)
http://localhost/index.php/page	(empty string)
http://localhost/web/index.php	/web
http://localhost/we%20b/index.php	/we%20b

Base path

Get base path (including the script name, if any). The returned path never ends with a "/".

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getBasePath());

Examples:

URL	Base path
http://localhost/index.php	/index.php
http://localhost/index.php/page	/index.php
http://localhost/web/index.php	/web/index.php
http://localhost/we%20b/index.php	/we%20b/index.php

Path info

Get path info.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getPathInfo());

Examples:

URL	Path info
http://localhost/index.php	(empty string)
http://localhost/index.php/page	/page
http://localhost/web/index.php	(empty string)
http://localhost/we%20b/index.php/foo%20bar	/foo%20bar

Script name

Get the current script name.

<?php

use Kuria\RequestInfo\RequestInfo;

var_dump(RequestInfo::getScriptName());

Example output:

string(18) "./public/index.php"

Internal cache

Most methods of the RequestInfo class cache their results internally. If you manipulate $_SERVER after already reading some request information, you will need to call RequestInfo::clearCache() to clear the cache.