I've used both fopen() and the CURL libraries...
> > I need to grab some data from a CGI program running on a different > > server. I have been toying around executing LYNX using the passthru > > command. I seem to be able to grab the data just fine using "lynx > > -source -preparsed $URL". I've started reading about CURL. I am > > wondering if it is worth my effort to recompile my server to include > > CURL support. Any feedback is appreciated. > >Why use curl (or an external program like lynx) when you can use >file()/readfile()/fopen()/fsockopen(), depending if you just need the >source from that cgi or need to mangle it a little? > >Using PHP build-ins will most likely be faster or at least nicer for >your resources. > >IMHO (never used it) curl is only needed when you need to something >fancy like post/put requests. though i was just doing simple GETs to website, i happened to be doing a lot of them in nested loops (get one page, parse a bunch of URLs out of it, get a sub-page, find a link in it, get a file, etc...) fopen()/fread() just started to crash after a couple of iterations. i don't know if that's because i'm on win2k or what, but I enabled CURL and tried using it instead, and NO PROBLEMS whatsoever. CURL turned out to be much, much more reliable for my use. just so's ya know, jerome _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
