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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/06/07 05:02
Ojas wrote:
> On Dec 6, 8:21 am, NC <n...@iname.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 1:18 am, Ojas <contacto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> if the request has been sent through command line, $argc &
>>> $arv will exists whether having any values or not but since
>>> we can access these values from $_SERVER (or $_ENV not sure
>>> about it) which itself is an array, not set $_SERVER['argc']
>>> is equivalent to null $_SERVER['argc'], accessing the
>>> $_SERVER['argc'] will result to null values in both cases,
>>> then how one can distinguish these cases?
>> There's no need to. If the script is running from the command line, a
>> call to php_sapi_name() will return 'cli'.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> NC
>
> Hi! all,
>
> NC has provided a very useful point of using php_sapi_name to detect
> the same. I tried to print 'PHP_SAPI' on my system and got the
> following result:
>
> Browser: apache2handler
> Command Prompt: cli
>
> I think it is of great help and we are going to have a robust
> solution. Meanwhile, i would appreciate if anyone of you could share
> the list of all possible php sapi (along with their possible
> application from which they will be in existence).
>
> And yes Jerry Stuckle do provided the good way of distinguish between
> 'not set element' and 'null element' inside the array. I was known to
> it, but somehow it get slipped out of my mind.
>
> Cheers! NC & Jerry Stuckle.
>
> To continue the discussion, i would like to extend it a little bit
> further by asking how to detect whether a request to the server has
> been made directly or using sockets or using CURL from the client side
> application?
>
> Ojas
>
No way to tell. This depends on the user agent sending information,
which is not reliable. For instance, depending on the site I'm
interfacing to in CURL, I might send some string such as "PHP-CURL", or
I might send the user agent the client is using (i.e. Firefox, IE, etc.).
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