FrankenPHP to replace PHP-FPM

[jonathanlundstrom]

Hi,

We've now worked on several projects where we need to create API:s that receive streamed files. In these instances (and surely many others) we have a need to verify the headers of the request and authenticate it – before accepting the actual octet stream to the server, or denying it in case of no access. With nginx and php-fpm this is simply not possible because of buffered requests, meaning that even if we disable stream buffering in nginx, php-fpm will do it for us – no matter if we want this or not.

As far as we've understood, this is not the case with modern PHP servers such as Open Swoole or FrankenPHP. While running these in production is a breeze, testing them locally means skipping Herd, and all the benefits that come with it – sadly...

So my question is, have you considered deprecating the current environment in favor of one of the two? Or are you planning to at least support them as an optional enhancement?

Thank you!