Hey,
I'd like to start bundling the cURL distribution with PHP, for both
the curl extension (for starters), as well as replacing alot of the
current ftp & http code to use the cURL library.
I want to do this for a few reasons, the most poignant are:
1) HTTP is a tricky mistress. Incompatibilities, protocol changes,
request features, etc. cURL is a library with the best support for
http and related protocols of all the different libraries out there.
2) cURL supports a multitude of different protocols which could be
added to PHP transparently, including HTTPS, HTTP Proxy, DICT, LDAP,
Telnet, etc.
3) cURL is fast, not just marginally faster, but quite a bit faster.
Most benchmarks done confirm that its at least 20-30% faster than
PHP's native code. Of course nothing official, but I'd be willing
to bet quite a bit that an "official" benchmark would yield the same
results.
4) I don't need to stress how important it is for PHP to have superb
support for interacting with other web programs, even more now with
the advent of "web services" (even though I'm not a huge fan of this
concept).
5) cURL is quite popular, and is becoming even more popular lately,
that means we get to take advantage of the work of the talented cURL
developers in PHP, people who are constantly improving and tuning
cURL to support new features, and new ideas.
well, yeah, that's pretty much it, thoughts?
-Sterling
PS: cURL is license compatible, its dual-licensed under the MPL or
the MIT public license.
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