PHP WebSocket Server can not access Origin and Referrer headers

Question

I have a simple PHP websocket server

Here is the full code : https://gist.github.com/hack4mer/e40094001d16c75fe5ae8347ebffccb7

while (true) {

$changed = $clients;
socket_select($changed, $null, $null, 0, 10);

//check for new socket
if (in_array($socket, $changed)) {
    $socket_new = socket_accept($socket); //accpet new socket
    $clients[] = $socket_new; //add socket to client array

   //THIS DOES NOT WORK
   print_r($_SERVER);
   die();

}

In the browser's network tab, I can confirm the following request:

Request URL: ws://localhost:12345/
Provisional headers are shown
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,hi;q=0.8,ms;q=0.7
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: Upgrade
Host: localhost:12345
Origin: http://localhost

However am not able to access these request headers in my script.

My aim is to restrict access of the WebSocket to only few hosts

Answer 1

I solved this issue by doing the header checking before the handshaking.

Full code : https://gist.github.com/hack4mer/e40094001d16c75fe5ae8347ebffccb7

function perform_handshaking($receved_header,$client_conn, $host, $port)
{
$headers = array();
$lines = preg_split("/\r\n/", $receved_header);
foreach($lines as $line)
{
    $line = chop($line);
    if(preg_match('/\A(\S+): (.*)\z/', $line, $matches))
    {
        $headers[$matches[1]] = $matches[2];
    }
}

 //HEADERS AVAILABLE HERE -> $headers

$secKey = $headers['Sec-WebSocket-Key'];
$secAccept = base64_encode(pack('H*', sha1($secKey . '258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11')));
//hand shaking header
$upgrade  = "HTTP/1.1 101 Web Socket Protocol Handshake\r\n" .
"Upgrade: websocket\r\n" .
"Connection: Upgrade\r\n" .
"WebSocket-Origin: $host\r\n" .
"WebSocket-Location: ws://$host:$port/demo/shout.php\r\n".
"Sec-WebSocket-Accept:$secAccept\r\n\r\n";
socket_write($client_conn,$upgrade,strlen($upgrade));
}

Answer 2

You will have to buffer the data, at least until the headers are done (CRLF).

Have a look at react/socket. It is very easy to use non-blocking sockets with that.

To implement the websocket protocol, have a look at ratchetphp/RFC6455.