Hi!
> Personally, I’ve never liked that PHP requires cURL for doing HTTP
> requests. It’s a language made for the web, it should have built-in
I see no problem in depending on cURL. NIH'ing every part of the
software universe in unfeasible, and if somebody does this one job and
does it well - why not use it? We don't have enough resources here to
implement every detail of the huge protocol like HTTP, and that's the
whole point of opensource to reuse and combine projects.
> HTTP, and it should share code between its server-side HTTP and
> client-side HTTP stuff. I don’t think that the HTTP stream wrappers
> are a “hack” - they’re what PHP should have had all along. I think we
HTTP stream wrappers work for some cases, but not for all and for cases
where you need deep involvement with details of HTTP - like headers,
byteranges, content encodings, etc. - they might not be the best API to
deal with it.
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Stas Malyshev
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