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Instead of passing localhost to mysqli_connect as the $host parameter
I think it'd be useful if you could pass something like
ssh2.tunnel://user:[email protected]:22/192.168.0.1:14 to it as well.

The main advantage I see of doing that is that you could tunnel
through SSH2, through SOCKS, through HTTP CONNECT, etc, a lot more
easily than you currently can. Like you could have an SSH connection
re-created every time a PHP script is called and a tunnel dynamically
made instead of having a persistent tunnel created with autossh or
whatever.

And even if SSH2 / SOCKS / CONNECT don't exist as built-in wrappers
custom stream wrappers could be made. This would additionally make it
easy for people to examine the underpinnings of MySQL. Instead of
intercepting the packets the MySQL client sends out and placing them
into an SSH tunnel or whatever one could just dump them to a log file
to better understand how MySQL clients work internally.

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  • Rasmus Lerdorf at Mar 13, 2013 at 8:37 pm ⇧

    On 03/13/2013 12:08 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote:
    Instead of passing localhost to mysqli_connect as the $host parameter
    I think it'd be useful if you could pass something like
    ssh2.tunnel://user:[email protected]:22/192.168.0.1:14 to it as well.

    The main advantage I see of doing that is that you could tunnel
    through SSH2, through SOCKS, through HTTP CONNECT, etc, a lot more
    easily than you currently can. Like you could have an SSH connection
    re-created every time a PHP script is called and a tunnel dynamically
    made instead of having a persistent tunnel created with autossh or
    whatever.

    And even if SSH2 / SOCKS / CONNECT don't exist as built-in wrappers
    custom stream wrappers could be made. This would additionally make it
    easy for people to examine the underpinnings of MySQL. Instead of
    intercepting the packets the MySQL client sends out and placing them
    into an SSH tunnel or whatever one could just dump them to a log file
    to better understand how MySQL clients work internally.
    Instead of adding all that gear to PHP itself, wouldn't it make more
    sense to just use something like autossh to maintain your ssh tunnel and
    have PHP connect to your tunnel endpoint? mysqli_connect() in PHP is
    just a thin wrapper on top of the underlying library.

    And your debugging use-case is also handled nicely by external tools
    that listen on a unix-domain socket, for example.

    -Rasmus
  • Thomas Anderson at Mar 13, 2013 at 9:09 pm ⇧

    On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
    On 03/13/2013 12:08 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote:
    Instead of passing localhost to mysqli_connect as the $host parameter
    I think it'd be useful if you could pass something like
    ssh2.tunnel://user:[email protected]:22/192.168.0.1:14 to it as well.

    The main advantage I see of doing that is that you could tunnel
    through SSH2, through SOCKS, through HTTP CONNECT, etc, a lot more
    easily than you currently can. Like you could have an SSH connection
    re-created every time a PHP script is called and a tunnel dynamically
    made instead of having a persistent tunnel created with autossh or
    whatever.

    And even if SSH2 / SOCKS / CONNECT don't exist as built-in wrappers
    custom stream wrappers could be made. This would additionally make it
    easy for people to examine the underpinnings of MySQL. Instead of
    intercepting the packets the MySQL client sends out and placing them
    into an SSH tunnel or whatever one could just dump them to a log file
    to better understand how MySQL clients work internally.
    Instead of adding all that gear to PHP itself, wouldn't it make more
    sense to just use something like autossh to maintain your ssh tunnel and
    have PHP connect to your tunnel endpoint? mysqli_connect() in PHP is
    just a thin wrapper on top of the underlying library.
    Oh - I didn't know that. I thought (hoped) it might have been like a
    two second code change lol.
  • Andrey Hristov at Mar 14, 2013 at 9:33 am ⇧
    Hi,
    On 03/13/2013 10:09 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote:
    On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
    On 03/13/2013 12:08 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote:
    Instead of passing localhost to mysqli_connect as the $host parameter
    I think it'd be useful if you could pass something like
    ssh2.tunnel://user:[email protected]:22/192.168.0.1:14 to it as well.

    The main advantage I see of doing that is that you could tunnel
    through SSH2, through SOCKS, through HTTP CONNECT, etc, a lot more
    easily than you currently can. Like you could have an SSH connection
    re-created every time a PHP script is called and a tunnel dynamically
    made instead of having a persistent tunnel created with autossh or
    whatever.

    And even if SSH2 / SOCKS / CONNECT don't exist as built-in wrappers
    custom stream wrappers could be made. This would additionally make it
    easy for people to examine the underpinnings of MySQL. Instead of
    intercepting the packets the MySQL client sends out and placing them
    into an SSH tunnel or whatever one could just dump them to a log file
    to better understand how MySQL clients work internally.
    Instead of adding all that gear to PHP itself, wouldn't it make more
    sense to just use something like autossh to maintain your ssh tunnel and
    have PHP connect to your tunnel endpoint? mysqli_connect() in PHP is
    just a thin wrapper on top of the underlying library.
    Oh - I didn't know that. I thought (hoped) it might have been like a
    two second code change lol.
    a very easy way is to write a mysqlnd plugin that overwrites
    mysqlnd_connect, maybe some small changes to mysqlnd_net. You can pass
    whatever you want and it will connect the way you want. At the end there
    should be opened PHP stream. Upload it to pecl.php.net and let the
    people use it. If many people decide to use it it might get its way into
    the core of mysqlnd.

    Best,
    Andrey

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