是否可以在 PHP 的内置 Web 服务器中启用 HTTP 范围请求支持？

Question

I'm using the PHP built-in server to serve static files.

php -S localhost:8000

I have however noticed that the Range header gets ignored - instead of serving the requested range, the entire resource is served.

I am not that well versed in PHP, the reason I'm using this server is because I'm looking for an alternative to Python's built-in server ( python3 -m http.server ) which does not support range requests (either?) that is built-in into macOS. It seems to me like Python and PHP servers are the two available options. Knowing Python's doesn't support HTTP range requests, is there any way to use config.ini or some other mechanism to enable HTTP range requests in PHP's?

I looked at php -h but it doesn't talk about the -S option much beyond the basic syntax. Not sure if there are more options that can be used with it so that's why I assume config.ini is the only possible way.

Answer 1

If you start the webserver with a router:

$ php -S 0.0.0.0:9999 router.php

All http requests will be passed through that script. And in there you can handle the range request by reading and outputing chunks of files.

Using the script linked to here in this comment: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22398156/3392762

You can try something like the following in router.php:

<?php
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] === '/foo.ogg')
    serveFilePartial('foo.ogg');

Be very careful mapping user submitted paths to files.

I can't attest to the quality of the linked code. But if you scan it, it looks for the $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'] header. And tries to grab the byte range requested and serve a chunk appropriately.

Answer 2

Although I don't have a definitive answer I'm pretty sure the documentation essentially says no.

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