> As I understand it, PHP 4 has CURL support.
> 1) is enabling the curl extension a substitute for installing the curl
> package?
> In other words, if I enable the extension, do I still need to instal
> the CURL package?
You need to install CURL, and tell PHP where it is when you compile
it, in order to use the extensions.
> 2) Can I install curl without ROOT access?
Probably, but I wouldn't know...
> 3) Does FOPEN() NOT support HTTPS, or do I need to do something
> special.
Probably not. As I understand it, you need to install some kind
of patch to your system to allow you to open URLs with fopen().
That's unlikely to support encrypted transactions (https).
> 4) How else can I innitiate a HTTPS connection on a *NIX system?
> Is Socket the only solution?
CURL works nicely... I doubt you'd get far with sockets since you
would have to encrypt and decrypt on your own.
Jasoon
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