HTTP Request Class to rebuild RAW request from $_SERVER

gistfile1.php

/**
* Access the HTTP Request
* 
* Found on http://www.daniweb.com/web-development/php/code/216846/get-http-request-headers-and-body
*/
class http_request {

	/** additional HTTP headers not prefixed with HTTP_ in $_SERVER superglobal */
	public $add_headers = array('CONTENT_TYPE', 'CONTENT_LENGTH');

	/**
	* Construtor
	* Retrieve HTTP Body
	* @param Array Additional Headers to retrieve
	*/
	function __construct($add_headers = false) {

		$this->retrieve_headers($add_headers);
		$this->body = @file_get_contents('php://input');
	}

	/**
	* Retrieve the HTTP request headers from the $_SERVER superglobal
	* @param Array Additional Headers to retrieve
	*/
	function retrieve_headers($add_headers = false) {

		if ($add_headers) {
			$this->add_headers = array_merge($this->add_headers, $add_headers);
		}

		if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_METHOD'])) {
			$this->method = $_SERVER['HTTP_METHOD'];
			unset($_SERVER['HTTP_METHOD']);
		} else {
			$this->method = isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) ? $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] : false;
		}
		$this->protocol = isset($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL']) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] : false;
		$this->request_method = isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) ? $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] : false;

		$this->headers = array();
		foreach($_SERVER as $i=>$val) {
			if (strpos($i, 'HTTP_') === 0 || in_array($i, $this->add_headers)) {
				$name = str_replace(array('HTTP_', '_'), array('', '-'), $i);
				$this->headers[$name] = $val;
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	* Retrieve HTTP Method
	*/
	function method() {
		return $this->method;
	}

	/**
	* Retrieve HTTP Body
	*/
	function body() {
		return $this->body;
	}

	/**
	* Retrieve an HTTP Header
	* @param string Case-Insensitive HTTP Header Name (eg: "User-Agent")
	*/
	function header($name) {
		$name = strtoupper($name);
		return isset($this->headers[$name]) ? $this->headers[$name] : false;
	}

	/**
	* Retrieve all HTTP Headers 
	* @return array HTTP Headers
	*/
	function headers() {
		return $this->headers;
	}

	/**
	* Return Raw HTTP Request (note: This is incomplete)
	* @param bool ReBuild the Raw HTTP Request
	*/
	function raw($refresh = false) {
		if (isset($this->raw) && !$refresh) {
			return $this->raw; // return cached
		}
		$headers = $this->headers();
		$this->raw = "{$this->method} {$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']} {$this->protocol}\r\n";

		foreach($headers as $i=>$header) {
			$this->raw .= "$i: $header\r\n";
		}
		$this->raw .= "\r\n{$this->body}";
		return $this->raw;
	}

}

/**
* Example Usage
* Echos the HTTP Request back to the client/browser
*/
$http_request = new http_request();

$resp = $http_request->raw();

echo nl2br($resp);
/* Result (less <br> tags)
    GET / HTTP/1.1
    HOST: localhost:80
    USER-AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 ...
    ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;...
    ACCEPT-LANGUAGE: en-US,en;q=0.5
    ACCEPT-ENCODING: gzip, deflate
    DNT: 1
    COOKIE: PHPSESSID=...
    CONNECTION: keep-alive
*/