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$HTTP_SERVER_VARS [deprecated]

$_SERVER -- $HTTP_SERVER_VARS [deprecated]Informação do servidor e ambiente de execução

Descrição

$_SERVER é um array contendo informação como cabeçalhos, paths, e localizações do script. As entradas neste array são criadas pelo servidor web. Não há garantia que cada servidor web proverá algum destes; servidores podem omitir alguns, ou fornecer outros não listados aqui. Dito isso, um grande número dessas variáveis são previstas pela » CGI 1.1 specification, então você deve estar hábil para esperá-las.

$HTTP_SERVER_VARS contém a mesma informação inicial, mas não é uma superglobal. (Note que $HTTP_SERVER_VARS e $_SERVER são variáveis diferentes e que o PHP manuseia-as diferentemente)

Você pode ou não encontrar algum dos seguintes elementos em $_SERVER. Note que poucas, se alguma, dessas estarão disponíveis (ou ter algum significado) se executando o PHP na linha de comando.

'PHP_SELF'
O nome do arquivo do script que está executando, relativa à raiz do documento. Por exemplo, $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] em um script no endereço http://example.com/test.php/foo.bar seria /test.php/foo.bar. A constante __FILE__ contém o caminho completo e nome do atual arquivo (i.e. incluído). Se estiver rodando o PHP em linha de comando, esta variável contém o nome do script desde o PHP 4.3.0. Anteriormente ela não estava disponível.
'argv'
Array de argumentos passado para o script. Quando o script é executado na linha de comando, isto permite um acesso aos parâmetros de linha de comando no estilo do C. Quando chamado via método GET, ele conterá a query string.
'argc'
Contém o número de parâmetros da linha de comando passados para o script (se executando da linha de comando).
'GATEWAY_INTERFACE'
O número de revisão da especificação CGI que o servidor está utilizando, por exemplo : 'CGI/1.1'.
'SERVER_ADDR'
O endereço IP do servidor onde está o script em execução.
'SERVER_NAME'
O nome host do servidor onde o script atual é executado. Se o script está rodando em um host virtual, este será o valor definido para aquele host virtual.
'SERVER_SOFTWARE'
A string de identificação do servidor, fornecida nos headers quando respondendo a requests.
'SERVER_PROTOCOL'
Nome e número de revisão do protocolo de informação pelo qual a página foi requerida, por exemplo 'HTTP/1.0';
'REQUEST_METHOD'
Contém o método de request utilizando para acessar a página. Geralmente 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST' ou 'PUT'.

Nota:

O script PHP é terminado depois de enviado cabeçalhos (significa depois de produzir alguma saída sem saída do buffer) se o método da requisição for HEAD.

'REQUEST_TIME'
O timestamp do início da requisição. Disponível desde o PHP 5.1.0.
'QUERY_STRING'
A query string (string de solicitação), se houver, pela qual a página foi acessada.
'DOCUMENT_ROOT'
O diretório raiz sob onde o script atual é executado, como definido no arquivos de configuração do servidor.
'HTTP_ACCEPT'
O conteúdo do header Accept: da requisição atual, se houver.
'HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET'
O conteúdo do header Accept-Charset: da requisição atual, se houver. Exemplo: 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8'.
'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'
O conteúdo do header Accept-Encoding: da requisição atual, se houver. Exemplo: 'gzip'.
'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'
O conteúdo do header Accept-Language: da requisição atual, se houver. Exemplo 'en'.
'HTTP_CONNECTION'
O conteúdo do header Connection: da requisição atual, se houver. Exemplo: 'Keep-Alive'.
'HTTP_HOST'
O conteúdo do header Host: da requisição atual, se houver.
'HTTP_REFERER'
O endereço da página (se houver) através da qual o agente do usuário acessou a página atual. Essa diretiva é informada pelo agente do usuário. Nem todos os browsers geram esse header, e alguns ainda possuem a habilidade de modificar o conteúdo do HTTP_REFERER como recurso. Em poucas palavras, não é confiável.
'HTTP_USER_AGENT'
O conteúdo do header User-Agent: da requisição atual, se houver. É uma string denotando o agente de usuário pelo qual a página é acessada. Um exemplo típico é: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.9 i586). Além de outras coisas, você pode utilizar este valor com get_browser() para personalizar a geração de suas páginas para as capacidades do agente do usuário.
'HTTPS'
Define para um valor não vazio se o script foi requisitado através do protocolo HTTPS. Note que quando usando ISAPI com IIS, o valor será off se a requisição não for feita por protocolo HTTPS.
'REMOTE_ADDR'
O endereço IP de onde o usuário está visualizado a página atual.
'REMOTE_HOST'
O nome do host que o usuário utilizou para chamar a página atual. O DNS reverso (lookup) do REMOTE_ADDR do usuário.

Nota: Seu servidor web precisa estar configurado para criar essa variável. Por exemplo, no Apache você precisa colocar um HostnameLookups On dentro do httpd.conf. Veja também gethostbyaddr().

'REMOTE_PORT'
A porta TCP na máquina do usuário utilizada para comunicação com o servidor web.
'SCRIPT_FILENAME'

O caminho absoluto o script atualmente em execução.

Nota:

Se o script for executado pela CLI com um caminho relativo, como file.php ou ../file.php, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] irá conter o caminho relativo especificado pelo usuário.

'SERVER_ADMIN'
O valor fornecido pela diretiva SERVER_ADMIN (do Apache) no arquivo de configuração do servidor. Se o script está sendo executado em um host virtual, este será os valores definidos para aquele host virtual.
'SERVER_PORT'
A porta na máquina servidora utilizada pelo servidor web para comunicação. Como default, este valor é '80'. Utilizando SSL, entretanto, mudará esse valor para a porta de comunicação segura HTTP.
'SERVER_SIGNATURE'
String contendo a versão do servidor e nome do host virtual que é adicionado às páginas geradas no servidor, se ativo.
'PATH_TRANSLATED'
O caminho real do script relativo ao sistema de arquivos (não o document root), depois realizou todos os mapeamentos de caminhos (virtual-to-real).

Nota: A partir do PHP 4.3.2, PATH_TRANSLATED não mais existe implicitamente sob a SAPI do Apache 2, ao contrário da mesma situação no Apache 1, onde ela tinha o mesmo valor da variável de servidor SCRIPT_FILENAME, quando a mesma não era configurada pelo Apache. Essa mudança foi realizada para conformidade com a especificação CGI, onde PATH_TRANSLATED deve existir somente se PATH_INFO estiver definida. Apache 2 users may use AcceptPathInfo = On inside httpd.conf to define PATH_INFO.

'SCRIPT_NAME'
Contém o caminho completo do script atual. Útil para páginas que precisam apontar para elas mesmas (dinamicamente). A constante __FILE__ contém o caminho completo e nome do arquivo (mesmo incluído) atual.
'REQUEST_URI'
O URI fornecido para acessar a página atual, por exemplo, '/index.html'.
'PHP_AUTH_DIGEST'
Quando executando no Apache como módulo fazendo autenticação HTTP esta variável é definida para o cabeçalho 'Authorization' enviado pelo cliente (que você pode então usar para fazer apropriada validação).
'PHP_AUTH_USER'
Quando executando sob o Apache ou IIS (ISAPI no PHP 5) como módulo e fazendo autenticaçào HTTP, esta variável estará definida com o username fornecido pelo usuário.
'PHP_AUTH_PW'
Quando executando sob o Apache ou IIS (ISAPI no PHP 5) como módulo e fazendo autenticaçào HTTP, esta variável estará definida com a senha fornecida pelo usuário.
'AUTH_TYPE'
Quando executando sob o Apache como módulo e fazendo autenticaçào HTTP, esta variável estará definida com o tipo de autenticação utilizado.

Changelog

Versão Descrição
4.1.0 Introduzida $_SERVER que torna obsoleta a $HTTP_SERVER_VARS.

Exemplos

Exemplo #1 Exemplo da $_SERVER

<?php
echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
?>

O exemplo acima irá imprimir algo similar à:

www.example.com

Notas

Nota:

Esta é uma 'superglobal', ou global automática, variável. Isto simplismente significa que ela está disponível em todos escopos pelo script. Não há necessidade de fazer global $variable; para acessá-la dentro de uma função ou método.

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$_GET> <$GLOBALS
[edit] Last updated: Fri, 26 Apr 2013
 
add a note add a note User Contributed Notes $_SERVER - [46 notes]
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php at isnoop dot net
3 years ago
Use the apache SetEnv directive to set arbitrary $_SERVER variables in your vhost or apache config.

SetEnv varname "variable value"
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Tonin
4 years ago
When using the $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] variable in an apache virtual host setup with a ServerAlias directive, be sure to check the UseCanonicalName apache directive.  If it is On, this variable will always have the apache ServerName value.  If it is Off, it will have the value given by the headers sent by the browser.

Depending on what you want to do the content of this variable, put in On or Off.
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Jamie
2 years ago
Note that on real paths, aliases are not resolved

$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] => /var/services/web/mysite
$_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] => /var/services/web/mysite/admin/products.php

(but __FILE__ => /volume1/web/mysite/admin/inc/includeFile.inc.php)
Use realpath to resolve the $_SERVER value.

Virtual paths also have some differences:
$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] => /admin/products.php (virtual path)
$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] => /admin/products.php/someExtraStuff (virtual path)

SCRIPT_NAME is defined in the CGI 1.1 specification, PHP_SELF is created by PHP itself. See http://php.about.com/od/learnphp/qt/_SERVER_PHP.htm for tests.
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chris
3 years ago
A table of everything in the $_SERVER array can be found near the bottom of the output of phpinfo();
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mirko dot steiner at slashdevslashnull dot de
3 years ago
<?php

// RFC 2616 compatible Accept Language Parser
// http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt, 14.4 Accept-Language, Page 104
// Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

foreach (explode(',', $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']) as $lang) {
   
$pattern = '/^(?P<primarytag>[a-zA-Z]{2,8})'.
   
'(?:-(?P<subtag>[a-zA-Z]{2,8}))?(?:(?:;q=)'.
   
'(?P<quantifier>\d\.\d))?$/';

   
$splits = array();

   
printf("Lang:,,%s''\n", $lang);
    if (
preg_match($pattern, $lang, $splits)) {
       
print_r($splits);
    } else {
        echo
"\nno match\n";
    }
}

?>

example output:

Google Chrome 3.0.195.27 Windows xp

Lang:,,de-DE''
Array
(
    [0] => de-DE
    [primarytag] => de
    [1] => de
    [subtag] => DE
    [2] => DE
)
Lang:,,de;q=0.8''
Array
(
    [0] => de;q=0.8
    [primarytag] => de
    [1] => de
    [subtag] =>
    [2] =>
    [quantifier] => 0.8
    [3] => 0.8
)
Lang:,,en-US;q=0.6''
Array
(
    [0] => en-US;q=0.6
    [primarytag] => en
    [1] => en
    [subtag] => US
    [2] => US
    [quantifier] => 0.6
    [3] => 0.6
)
Lang:,,en;q=0.4''
Array
(
    [0] => en;q=0.4
    [primarytag] => en
    [1] => en
    [subtag] =>
    [2] =>
    [quantifier] => 0.4
    [3] => 0.4
)
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pudding06 at gmail dot com
4 years ago
Here's a simple, quick but effective way to block unwanted external visitors to your local server:

<?php
// only local requests
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] !== '127.0.0.1') die(header("Location: /"));
?>

This will direct all external traffic to your home page. Of course you could send a 404 or other custom error. Best practice is not to stay on the page with a custom error message as you acknowledge that the page does exist. That's why I redirect unwanted calls to (for example) phpmyadmin.
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steve at sc-fa dot com
3 years ago
If you are serving from behind a proxy server, you will almost certainly save time by looking at what these $_SERVER variables do on your machine behind the proxy.  

$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] in place of $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST'] and
$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER'] in place of (at least in our case,) $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
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dii3g0
1 year ago
Proccess path_info

<?php
function get_path_info()
{
    if( !
array_key_exists('PATH_INFO', $_SERVER) )
    {
       
$pos = strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
   
       
$asd = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 0, $pos - 2);
       
$asd = substr($asd, strlen($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) + 1);
       
        return
$asd;   
    }
    else
    {
        return
trim($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], '/');
    }
}
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kamazee at gmail dot com
3 years ago
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] in different environments may has trailing slash or not, so be careful when including files from $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']:
<?php
include(dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'file.php')
?>
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jarrod at squarecrow dot com
3 years ago
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is incredibly useful especially when working in your development environment. If you're working on large projects you'll likely be including a large number of files into your pages. For example:

<?php
//Defines constants to use for "include" URLS - helps keep our paths clean

       
define("REGISTRY_CLASSES"$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/SOAP/classes/");
       
define("REGISTRY_CONTROLS", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/SOAP/controls/");

       
define("STRING_BUILDER",     REGISTRY_CLASSES. "stringbuilder.php");
       
define("SESSION_MANAGER",     REGISTRY_CLASSES. "sessionmanager.php");
       
define("STANDARD_CONTROLS",    REGISTRY_CONTROLS."standardcontrols.php");
?>

In development environments, you're rarely working with your root folder, especially if you're running PHP locally on your box and using DOCUMENT_ROOT is a great way to maintain URL conformity. This will save you hours of work preparing your application for deployment from your box to a production server (not to mention save you the headache of include path failures).
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Richard York
3 years ago
Not documented here is the fact that $_SERVER is populated with some pretty useful information when accessing PHP via the shell.

 ["_SERVER"]=>
  array(24) {
    ["MANPATH"]=>
    string(48) "/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man"
    ["TERM"]=>
    string(11) "xterm-color"
    ["SHELL"]=>
    string(9) "/bin/bash"
    ["SSH_CLIENT"]=>
    string(20) "127.0.0.1 41242 22"
    ["OLDPWD"]=>
    string(60) "/Library/WebServer/Domains/www.example.com/private"
    ["SSH_TTY"]=>
    string(12) "/dev/ttys000"
    ["USER"]=>
    string(5) "username"
    ["MAIL"]=>
    string(15) "/var/mail/username"
    ["PATH"]=>
    string(57) "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin"
    ["PWD"]=>
    string(56) "/Library/WebServer/Domains/www.example.com/www"
    ["SHLVL"]=>
    string(1) "1"
    ["HOME"]=>
    string(12) "/Users/username"
    ["LOGNAME"]=>
    string(5) "username"
    ["SSH_CONNECTION"]=>
    string(31) "127.0.0.1 41242 10.0.0.1 22"
    ["_"]=>
    string(12) "/usr/bin/php"
    ["__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"]=>
    string(9) "0x1F5:0:0"
    ["PHP_SELF"]=>
    string(10) "Shell.php"
    ["SCRIPT_NAME"]=>
    string(10) "Shell.php"
    ["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]=>
    string(10) "Shell.php"
    ["PATH_TRANSLATED"]=>
    string(10) "Shell.php"
    ["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]=>
    string(0) ""
    ["REQUEST_TIME"]=>
    int(1247162183)
    ["argv"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      string(10) "Shell.php"
    }
    ["argc"]=>
    int(1)
  }
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jonbarnett at gmail dot com
4 years ago
It's worth noting that $_SERVER variables get created for any HTTP request headers, including those you might invent:

If the browser sends an HTTP request header of:
X-Debug-Custom: some string

Then:

<?php
$_SERVER
['HTTP_X_DEBUG_CUSTOM']; // "some string"
?>

There are better ways to identify the HTTP request headers sent by the browser, but this is convenient if you know what to expect from, for example, an AJAX script with custom headers.

Works in PHP5 on Apache with mod_php.  Don't know if this is true from other environments.
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MarkAgius at markagius dot co dot uk
1 year ago
You have missed 'REDIRECT_STATUS'

Very useful if you point all your error pages to the same file.

File; .htaccess
# .htaccess file.

ErrorDocument 404 /error-msg.php
ErrorDocument 500 /error-msg.php
ErrorDocument 400 /error-msg.php
ErrorDocument 401 /error-msg.php
ErrorDocument 403 /error-msg.php
# End of file.

File; error-msg.php
<?php
  $HttpStatus
= $_SERVER["REDIRECT_STATUS"] ;
  if(
$HttpStatus==200) {print "Document has been processed and sent to you.";}
  if(
$HttpStatus==400) {print "Bad HTTP request ";}
  if(
$HttpStatus==401) {print "Unauthorized - Iinvalid password";}
  if(
$HttpStatus==403) {print "Forbidden";}
  if(
$HttpStatus==500) {print "Internal Server Error";}
  if(
$HttpStatus==418) {print "I'm a teapot! - This is a real value, defined in 1998";}

?>
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cupy at email dot cz
3 years ago
Tech note:
$_SERVER['argc'] and $_SERVER['argv'][] has some funny behaviour,
used from linux (bash) commandline, when called like
"php ./script_name.php 0x020B"
there is everything correct, but
"./script_name.php 0x020B"
is not correct - "0" is passed instead of "0x020B" as $_SERVER['argv'][1] - see the script below.
Looks like the parameter is not passed well from bash to PHP.
(but, inspected on the level of bash, 0x020B is understood well as $1)

try this example:

------------->8------------------
cat ./script_name.php
#! /usr/bin/php

if( $_SERVER['argc'] == 2)
  {
    // funny... we have to do this trick to pass e.g. 0x020B from parameters
    // ignore this: "PHP Notice:  Undefined offset:  2 in ..."
    $EID = $_SERVER['argv'][1] + $_SERVER['argv'][2] + $_SERVER['argv'][3];
  }
 else
   {        // default
     $EID = 0x0210; // PPS failure
   }
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Vladimir Kornea
4 years ago
1. All elements of the $_SERVER array whose keys begin with 'HTTP_' come from HTTP request headers and are not to be trusted.

2. All HTTP headers sent to the script are made available through the $_SERVER array, with names prefixed by 'HTTP_'.

3. $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is dangerous if misused. If login.php/nearly_arbitrary_string is requested, $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] will contain not just login.php, but the entire login.php/nearly_arbitrary_string. If you've printed $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] as the value of the action attribute of your form tag without performing HTML encoding, an attacker can perform XSS attacks by offering users a link to your site such as this:

<a href='http://www.example.com/login.php/"><script type="text/javascript">...</script><span a="'>Example.com</a>

The javascript block would define an event handler function and bind it to the form's submit event. This event handler would load via an <img> tag an external file, with the submitted username and password as parameters.

Use $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] instead of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']. HTML encode every string sent to the browser that should not be interpreted as HTML, unless you are absolutely certain that it cannot contain anything that the browser can interpret as HTML.
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dtomasiewicz at gmail dot com
2 years ago
To get an associative array of HTTP request headers formatted similarly to get_headers(), this will do the trick:

<?php
/**
 * Transforms $_SERVER HTTP headers into a nice associative array. For example:
 *   array(
 *       'Referer' => 'example.com',
 *       'X-Requested-With' => 'XMLHttpRequest'
 *   )
 */
function get_request_headers() {
   
$headers = array();
    foreach(
$_SERVER as $key => $value) {
        if(
strpos($key, 'HTTP_') === 0) {
           
$headers[str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords(str_replace('_', ' ', strtolower(substr($key, 5)))))] = $value;
        }
    }
    return
$headers;
}
?>
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dragon[dot]dionysius[at]gmail[dot]com
4 years ago
I've updated the function of my previous poster and putted it into my class.

<?php
   
/**
     * Checking HTTP-Header for language
     * needed for various system classes
     *
     * @return    boolean    true/false
     */
   
private function _checkClientLanguage()
    {   
       
$langcode = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] : '';
       
$langcode = (!empty($langcode)) ? explode(";", $langcode) : $langcode;
       
$langcode = (!empty($langcode['0'])) ? explode(",", $langcode['0']) : $langcode;
       
$langcode = (!empty($langcode['0'])) ? explode("-", $langcode['0']) : $langcode;
        return
$langcode['0'];
    }
?>

Please note, you have to check additional the result! Because the header may be missing or another possible thing, it is malformed. So check the result with a list with languages you support and perhaps you have to load a default language.

<?php

// if result isn't one of my defined languages
           
if(!in_array($lang, $language_list)) {
               
$lang = $language_default; // load default

?>

My HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE string:
FF3: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
IE7: de-ch

So, take care of it!
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Taomyn
4 years ago
'HTTPS'
    Set to a non-empty value if the script was queried through the HTTPS protocol. Note that when using ISAPI with IIS, the value will be off if the request was not made through the HTTPS protocol.

Does the same for IIS7 running PHP as a Fast-CGI application.
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krinklemail at gmail dot com
4 months ago
If requests to your PHP script send a header "Content-Type" or/ "Content-Length" it will, contrary to regular HTTP headers, not appear in $_SERVER as $_SERVER['HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE']. PHP removes these (per CGI/1.1 specification[1]) from the HTTP_ match group.

They are still accessible, but only if the request was a POST request. When it is, it'll be available as:
$_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH']
$_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE']

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875
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LOL
1 year ago
For an hosting that use windows I have used this script to make REQUEST_URI to be correctly setted on IIS
<?php
function request_URI() {
    if(!isset(
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
       
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
        if(
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) {
           
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] .= '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
        }
    }
    return
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = request_URI();
?>
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Anonymous
2 years ago
Use Strict-Transport-Security (STS) to force the use of SSL.
<?php
$use_sts
= TRUE;

if (
$use_sts && isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) {
 
header('Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=500');
} elseif (
$use_sts && !isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) {
 
header('Status-Code: 301');
 
header('Location: https://'.$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
?>
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wbeaumo1 at gmail dot com
2 years ago
Don't forget $_SERVER['HTTP_COOKIE']. It contains the raw value of the 'Cookie' header sent by the user agent.
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Tom
7 months ago
Be warned that most contents of the Server-Array (even $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']) are provided by the client and can be manipulated. They can also be used for injections and thus MUST be checked and treated like any other user input.
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mdlamar at gmail dot com
1 year ago
$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] contains my LAN IP rather than the public IP. I used the function gethostbyname() to get my public IP rather than the router assigned local IP.
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Stefano (info at sarchittu dot org)
2 years ago
A way to get the absolute path of your page, independent from the site position (so works both on local machine and on server without setting anything) and from the server OS (works both on Unix systems and Windows systems).

The only parameter it requires is the folder in which you place this script
So, for istance, I'll place this into my SCRIPT folder, and I'll write SCRIPT word length in $conflen

<?php
$conflen
=strlen('SCRIPT');
$B=substr(__FILE__,0,strrpos(__FILE__,'/'));
$A=substr($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], strrpos($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));
$C=substr($B,strlen($A));
$posconf=strlen($C)-$conflen-1;
$D=substr($C,1,$posconf);
$host='http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/'.$D;
?>

$host will finally contain the absolute path.
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piana at pyrohawk dot com
3 years ago
There are two different variables that I find very useful in Caching and similar.

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and $_SERVER['REQUEST_URL']

URI provides the entire request path (/directory/file.ext?query=string)
URL provides the request path, without the query string (/directory/file.ext)
It also differs from __FILE__ in that it's not the file name.  So, if you go to /directory/anotherfile.ext and get silently redirected to file.ext, these variables are anotherfile.ext, while __FILE__ is still file.ext.
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Megan Mickelson
3 years ago
It makes sense to want to paste the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] on to a page (like on a footer), but be sure to clean it up first with htmlspecialchars() otherwise it poses a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

e.g.
http://www.example.com/foo?<script>...

becomes
http://www.example.com/foo?&lt;script&gt;...
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Lord Mac
3 years ago
An even *more* improved version...

<?php
phpinfo
(32);
?>
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Andrew B
4 years ago
Please note on Windows/IIS - the variable 'USER_AUTH' will return the username/identity of the user accessing the page, i.e. if anonymous access is off, you would normally get back "$domain\$username".
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jeff at example dot com
4 years ago
Note that, in Apache 2, the server settings will affect the variables available in $_SERVER. For example, if you are using SSL, the following directive will dump SSL-related status information, along with the server certificate and client certificate (if present) into the $_SERVER variables:

SSLOptions +StdEnvVars +ExportCertData
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admin at NOSpAM dot sinfocol dot org
3 years ago
I was testing with the $_SERVER variable and some request method, and I found that with apache I can put an arbitrary method.

For example, I have an script called "server.php" in my example webpage with the next code:

<?php
echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'];
?>

And I made this request:
c:\>nc -vv www.example.com 80
example.com [x.x.x.x] 80 (http) open
ArbitratyMethod /server.php HTTP/1.1
Host: wow.sinfocol.org
Connection: Close

The response of the server is the next:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:14:09 GMT
Server: Apache
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

ArbitratyMethod

So, be carefully when include the $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] in any script, this kind of "bug" is old and could be dangerous.
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zeufonlinux at gmail dot com
2 months ago
Just a PHP file to put on your local server (as I don't have enough memory)

 <?php
 $indicesServer
= array('PHP_SELF',
'argv',
'argc',
'GATEWAY_INTERFACE',
'SERVER_ADDR',
'SERVER_NAME',
'SERVER_SOFTWARE',
'SERVER_PROTOCOL',
'REQUEST_METHOD',
'REQUEST_TIME',
'REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT',
'QUERY_STRING',
'DOCUMENT_ROOT',
'HTTP_ACCEPT',
'HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET',
'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING',
'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE',
'HTTP_CONNECTION',
'HTTP_HOST',
'HTTP_REFERER',
'HTTP_USER_AGENT',
'HTTPS',
'REMOTE_ADDR',
'REMOTE_HOST',
'REMOTE_PORT',
'REMOTE_USER',
'REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER',
'SCRIPT_FILENAME',
'SERVER_ADMIN',
'SERVER_PORT',
'SERVER_SIGNATURE',
'PATH_TRANSLATED',
'SCRIPT_NAME',
'REQUEST_URI',
'PHP_AUTH_DIGEST',
'PHP_AUTH_USER',
'PHP_AUTH_PW',
'AUTH_TYPE',
'PATH_INFO',
'ORIG_PATH_INFO') ;

echo
'<table cellpadding="10">' ;
foreach (
$indicesServer as $arg) {
    if (isset(
$_SERVER[$arg])) {
        echo
'<tr><td>'.$arg.'</td><td>' . $_SERVER[$arg] . '</td></tr>' ;
    }
    else {
        echo
'<tr><td>'.$arg.'</td><td>-</td></tr>' ;
    }
}
echo
'</table>' ;

/*

That will give you the result of each variable like (if the file is server_indices.php at the root and Apache Web directory is in E:\web) :

PHP_SELF    /server_indices.php
argv    -
argc    -
GATEWAY_INTERFACE    CGI/1.1
SERVER_ADDR    127.0.0.1
SERVER_NAME    localhost
SERVER_SOFTWARE    Apache/2.2.22 (Win64) PHP/5.3.13
SERVER_PROTOCOL    HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD    GET
REQUEST_TIME    1361542579
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT    -
QUERY_STRING   
DOCUMENT_ROOT    E:/web/
HTTP_ACCEPT    text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/
*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET    ISO
-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING    gzip
,deflate,sdch
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE    fr
-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
HTTP_CONNECTION    keep
-alive
HTTP_HOST    localhost
HTTP_REFERER    http
://localhost/
HTTP_USER_AGENT    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17
HTTPS   
-
REMOTE_ADDR    127.0.0.1
REMOTE_HOST   
-
REMOTE_PORT    65037
REMOTE_USER   
-
REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER    -
SCRIPT_FILENAME    E:/web/server_indices.php
SERVER_ADMIN    myemail
@personal.us
SERVER_PORT    80
SERVER_SIGNATURE   
PATH_TRANSLATED   
-
SCRIPT_NAME    /server_indices.php
REQUEST_URI   
/server_indices.php
PHP_AUTH_DIGEST   
-
PHP_AUTH_USER    -
PHP_AUTH_PW    -
AUTH_TYPE    -
PATH_INFO    -
ORIG_PATH_INFO    -

*/
?>
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Josh Fremer
2 years ago
HTTPS

Set to a non-empty value if the script was queried through the HTTPS protocol.

Note: Note that when using ISAPI with IIS, the value will be off if the request was not made through the HTTPS protocol.

=-=-=

To clarify this, the value is the string "off", so a specific non-empty value rather than an empty value as in Apache.
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rulerof at gmail dot com
2 years ago
I needed to get the full base directory of my script local to my webserver, IIS 7 on Windows 2008.

I ended up using this:

<?php
function GetBasePath() {
    return
substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], 0, strlen($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) - strlen(strrchr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], "\\")));
}
?>

And it returned C:\inetpub\wwwroot\<applicationfolder> as I had hoped.
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emailfire at gmail dot com
4 years ago
REQUEST_URI is useful, but if you want to get just the file name use:

<?php
$this_page
= basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if (
strpos($this_page, "?") !== false) $this_page = reset(explode("?", $this_page));
?>
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sabas88 at gmail dot com
22 days ago
I'm the author of this note
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php#100881

I optimized since that note the path function, basically added detection of windows slashes and a partial option

Now is released on github

https://github.com/sabas/magicpath
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Dean Jenkins
2 months ago
To get the name and web path of the current script

<?php
$scriptname
=end(explode('/',$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));
$scriptpath=str_replace($scriptname,'',$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
?>
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info at mtprod dot com
4 years ago
On Windows IIS 7 you must use $_SERVER['LOCAL_ADDR'] rather than $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] to get the server's IP address.
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jette at nerdgirl dot dk
4 years ago
Windows running IIS v6 does not include $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR']

If you need to get the IP addresse, use this instead:

<?php
$ipAddress
= gethostbyname($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
?>
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geoffrey dot hoffman at gmail dot com
4 years ago
If you are looking at $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] to determine whether your user is on a mobile device, you may want to visit these resources:

http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/

http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html
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silverquick at gmail dot com
4 years ago
I think the HTTPS element will only be present under Apache 2.x. It's not in the list of "special" variables here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteCond
But it is here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond
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danny at orionrobots dot co dot uk
4 years ago
It is worth noting here that if you use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] with a rewrite rule, the original, not rewritten URI will be presented.
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picov at e-link dot it
1 year ago
A simple function to detect if the current page address was rewritten by mod_rewrite:

<?php
public function urlWasRewritten() {
 
$realScriptName=$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
 
$virtualScriptName=reset(explode("?", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
  return !(
$realScriptName==$virtualScriptName);
}
?>
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dalys at chokladboll dot se
4 years ago
If you want en, sv-SE, da, es etc. to be returned from $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] you can use this function:

<?php
function detectlanguage() {
   
$langcode = explode(";", $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
   
$langcode = explode(",", $langcode['0']);
    return
$langcode['0'];
    }

$language = detectlanguage();

echo
"You have chosen $language as your language in your web browser.";
?>
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Thomas Urban
4 years ago
Maybe you're missing information on $_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'] or $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] as I did. On POST-requests these are available in addition to those listed above.
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sainthyoga2003 at gmail dot com
2 years ago
$_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] returns the path including the filename, like __DIR__

 
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