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On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Jason Murray wrote:
> > As I understand it, PHP 4 has CURL support.
> > 1) is enabling the curl extension a substitute for installing the curl
> > package?
> > In other words, if I enable the extension, do I still need to instal
> > the CURL package?
>
> You need to install CURL, and tell PHP where it is when you compile
> it, in order to use the extensions.
>
> > 2) Can I install curl without ROOT access?
>
> Probably, but I wouldn't know...
>
> > 3) Does FOPEN() NOT support HTTPS, or do I need to do something
> > special.
>
> Probably not. As I understand it, you need to install some kind
> of patch to your system to allow you to open URLs with fopen().
> That's unlikely to support encrypted transactions (https).
>
> > 4) How else can I innitiate a HTTPS connection on a *NIX system?
> > Is Socket the only solution?
>
> CURL works nicely... I doubt you'd get far with sockets since you
> would have to encrypt and decrypt on your own.
>
> Jasoon
>
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