cURL Alternative?

[Jonah Bishop]

I'm porting some code from C++ to PHP, and the C++ application I'm
porting from uses the cURL library (http://curl.haxx.se/). The library
is used to both make requests to an internal website at my work and to
look at the returned HTTP response codes (200, 401, 404, etc). It then
takes appropriate action, based on the response code that was
returned.

Assuming I was unable to use the cURL library in my PHP code (due to
mostly non-technical reasons), what alternatives do I have to do user
authentication and checking the resulting HTTP response codes? I have
been pointed to the Snoopy class hosted at SourceForge (http://
sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/), but it cannot handle HTTPS
authentication without the cURL library. Are there native calls
available for me to do this kind of thing? If so, what are they?

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.

Jonah

[Toby A Inkster]

Re: cURL Alternative?

Jonah Bishop wrote:

Assuming I was unable to use the cURL library in my PHP code (due to
mostly non-technical reasons), what alternatives do I have to do user
authentication and checking the resulting HTTP response codes?

There's the HTTP_Request PEAR library; you could use system() to call a
command-line tool such as "/usr/bin/wget" or "/usr/bin/GET"; or you could
use plain old TCP sockets and your own code to make the requests (as HTTP
is a very simple text-based protocol).

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[Manuel Lemos]

Re: cURL Alternative?

Hello,

on 03/12/2007 10:47 AM Jonah Bishop said the following:

I'm porting some code from C++ to PHP, and the C++ application I'm
porting from uses the cURL library (http://curl.haxx.se/). The library
is used to both make requests to an internal website at my work and to
look at the returned HTTP response codes (200, 401, 404, etc). It then
takes appropriate action, based on the response code that was
returned.
>
Assuming I was unable to use the cURL library in my PHP code (due to
mostly non-technical reasons), what alternatives do I have to do user
authentication and checking the resulting HTTP response codes? I have
been pointed to the Snoopy class hosted at SourceForge (http://
sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/), but it cannot handle HTTPS
authentication without the cURL library. Are there native calls
available for me to do this kind of thing? If so, what are they?

You may want to try this HTTP client class. It can handle HTTPS without
Curl as it uses the fsockopen call to establish HTTP connections. It
also supports many types of authentication including Basic, Digest, NTLM
(Windows or Samba).

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient

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[NC]

Re: cURL Alternative?

On Mar 12, 6:47 am, "Jonah Bishop" <jgbis...@gmail .comwrote:

>
Assuming I was unable to use the cURL library in my PHP
code (due to mostly non-technical reasons), what alternatives
do I have to do user authentication and checking the resulting
HTTP response codes?

The good old fsockopen(). You can send raw HTTP headers and receive
responses, just like browsers do. If you have OpenSSL enabled, you
can do HTTPS just as easily. For a simple example, see my old post to
alt.php:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.php/msg/b461757c923ebf40

Cheers,
NC