====== PHP RFC: Remove requirement for authority portion of user stream wrapper URIs ======
  * Version: 1.0
  * Date: 2017-01-23
  * Author: Michał Brzuchalski <michal.brzuchalski@gmail.com>
  * Status: Inactive
  * First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/ommit-double-slash-in-user-stream-wrapper-uri

===== Introduction =====
According to RFC 2396 defining [[https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt|URI Generic Syntax]] which specifies URI Syntactic Components:

> The URI syntax is dependent upon the scheme.

> The URI syntax does not require that the scheme-specific-part have
> any general structure or set of semantics which is common among all
> URI.

However it is not currently possible to declare user-defined Stream Wrapper and register valid protocol which could handle generic URI's. Currently there is requirement for authority portion ''%%://%%'' after protocol name when protocol name from URL detection is called.

===== Proposal =====
This RFC proposes to add a new flag ''STREAM_IS_URI'' to use with [[http://pl1.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-wrapper-register.php|stream_wrapper_register]] in a third parameter.

Passing the new flag allows a user defined Stream Wrapper class based on [[http://pl1.php.net/manual/en/class.streamwrapper.php|streamWrapper prototype]] to handle URI in their general syntax consisting of ''<scheme>'' and ''<scheme-specific-part>'' whose interpretation depends on the scheme.

===== Examples =====

<code php>
class MyStreamWrapper {
  public function url_stat(string $path, int $flags) : array {
    print "Stating file: $path\n";
    return array('dev'=>1, 'ino'=>2, 'mode'=>0644, 'nlink'=>3,
        'uid'=>100, 'gid'=>1000, 'rdev'=>-1, 'size'=>31337,
        'atime'=>1234567890, 'mtime'=>1231231231, 'ctime'=>1234564564,
        'blksize'=>-1, 'blocks'=>-1);
  }
}

stream_wrapper_register('test', MyStreamWrapper::class, STREAM_IS_URI);
file_exists('test:file.txt');
</code>

Output:
<code>
Stating file: test:file.txt
</code>


===== Backward Incompatible Changes =====
No backward incompatible changes, when the additional flag is missing all handled paths are checked in case of double slash existence after the colon which behaves exactly the same way as currently.

===== Proposed PHP Version(s) =====
next PHP 7.x or PHP 8.0

===== RFC Impact =====
==== To SAPIs ====
No impact.

==== To Existing Extensions ====

No.

==== To Opcache ====

No.

==== New Constants ====

''STREAM_IS_URI = 2'' - allows user Stream Wrapper to handle all variety of URI's without double-slash after colon

===== Proposed Voting Choices =====

This project requires a 2/3 majority. The vote is a straight Yes/No vote for accepting the RFC and merging the patch.

===== Patches and Tests =====

  * [[https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2331|PR #2331]]