Hi Bruce, Third times a charm :) Do you need to POST data? If not could you use wget? (which from what I'm aware is much more widely available)
Or even file_get_contents() which is now usually URL compatible (provided the server being referenced doesn't block requests). Regards, Paul Bennett MoveForward - Web Development for Design Companies http://www.moveforward.co.nz 06 308 9722 027 255 8495 On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Bruce Clement <[email protected]>wrote: > One of my side projects is resurrecting an ancient PHP directory script > (an old GPL 2 version of something that's later versions have been made > closed source by the original author). My revised version is publicly > available but not yet promoted. > > The original project checked URLs with its own logic using sockets and > file reads. Unfortunately it's either buggy or isn't very compatible with > modern PHP and I want to replace it rather than repair it. > > My preference is the cURL library but I just discovered that it isn't > available by default in Debian 6.0.5's Php stack (I've just switched my > debugging there from Wheezy because of the xdebug / php 5.4 incompatibility > issue). > > Yes I know it can be easily installed with Pecl or apt-get, but these > often aren't available to ordinary webmasters in shared hosting > environments. > > Before going too far down this path I'd like to know how much I'm limiting > my potential audience. > > Does anyone know how common cURL is in mainstream LAMP stacks, or know a > page giving this in a nice summary form? I know it's in Centos and missing > from Squeeze. > > Is there a better (more portable) option? (Must be GPL 2 compatible) > > Thanks > > Bruce > > PS I'm having a bad day today. This is my 3rd attempt to send this. Wrong > return address, wrong to address & hopefully 3rd time's lucky. > > -- > Bruce Clement > > Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement > Directory: http://www.searchme.co.nz/ > > "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good > appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail > Kalashnikov > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
