Can someone tell me what the default functions are in cake that process the initial request and convert the request properties into a php array? I thought it might be one of the functions in libs/http_socket.php, but it doesn’t appear to be the case.
Footnote: I know that one can build custom requesthandlers but that’s not what I want to do at the moment. I first want to analyze the current logic that cake is using to parse the http request.
You ought to look at the Dispatcher class and Router class. Dispatcher is called from app/webroot/index.php