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Introduction
laminas-http provides the HTTP message abstraction used by laminas-mvc, and also provides an extensible, adapter-driven HTTP client library. It provides the following abstractions:
- Context-less
Request
andResponse
classes that expose a fluent API for introspecting several aspects of HTTP messages:- Request line information and response status information
- Parameters, such as those found in POST and GET
- Message Body
- Headers
- A client implementation with various adapters that allow for sending requests and introspecting responses.
Not PSR-7
This library does not support PSR-7, as it predates that specification. For PSR-7 support, please see our Diactoros component.
Laminas\Http Request, Response and Headers
The request, response and headers implementations of the laminas-http component
provides a fluent, object-oriented interface for introspecting information from
all the various parts of an HTTP request or HTTP response. The primary classes
are Laminas\Http\Request
and Laminas\Http\Response
. Both are “context-less”,
meaning that they model a request or response in the same way whether it is
presented by a client (to send a request and receive a response) or by a
server (to receive a request and send a response). In other words,
regardless of the context, the API remains the same for introspecting their
various respective parts. Each attempts to fully model a request or response so
that a developer can create these objects from a factory, or create and populate
them manually.