cURL Vs Socket

hi all,

I need to POST values from PHP ie through code to a page on the net.
AFAIK there seems to be two methods of doing so, first you can use CURL
[ curl_exec() ] and secondly open a socket [ fsockopen() ].

So guys, in terms of performance what method would be best to use? Or
what are the pros n cons of using these methods.

TIA
Vish

*** Vish wrote/escribió (15 Jun 2005 01:27:40 -0700):
> So guys, in terms of performance what method would be best to use? Or
> what are the pros n cons of using these methods.

It'd be surprising that posting data through the Internet you faced any
performance issue related to choosing either method. 99,9% of your
performance will depend on network and remote server.

Use sockets if portability is a great issue and curl if you don't want to
reinvent the wheel.


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Hello,

on 06/15/2005 05:27 AM Vish said the following:
> hi all,
>
> I need to POST values from PHP ie through code to a page on the net.
> AFAIK there seems to be two methods of doing so, first you can use CURL
> [ curl_exec() ] and secondly open a socket [ fsockopen() ].
>
> So guys, in terms of performance what method would be best to use? Or
> what are the pros n cons of using these methods.

Using socket connections is preferred not because performance reasons
but because cUrl library has problems dealing with certain kinds of servers.

You may want to take a look at this HTTP client class that can submits
and processes HTTP requests correctly. It can use the cURL library
transparently only for SSL requests, but if fsockopen supports SSL it
will be used instead of curl.

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient


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