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  • A Little Bit of SOAP…

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    Ralf
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    SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol was born at the turn of the millennium when XML-RPC turned out to be not quite enough for the web’s growing need for integration and collaboration. 1 Horde has always been about integrations and APIs. It’s a framework driving collaboration software after all. Before “API-first” became a buzzword, Horde…

  • Horde’s HTTP component goes PSR

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    Ralf
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    This weekend, I gave the horde/http component a some major redesign. See how things escalated. Oh my. My minimum goals were namespacing, PSR-4 (Revised Autoloading Standard) and some minor, schematic adjustments. The final result is quite different. I ended up implementing PSR-7 (HTTP Message Interface), PSR-17 (HTTP Factories) and PSR-18 (HTTP Client). The code largely…