it's not the only reason. ext/soap also supports digital authentication which is still unsupported by streams. (may be something else).
Thanks. Dmitry. David Zülke wrote: > On 10.07.2009, at 17:00, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 16:58, Uwe Schindler<theta...@php.net> wrote: >>> As far as I know, SOAP does not use the HTTP wrappers directly, it >>> uses only >>> sockets/ssl for communication (so the context applies only to the lower >>> level SSL socket). So CURL is not used, because PHP's HTTP streams >>> are not >>> used. >> >> >> Ahhhh. You are right. >> But that was because PHP streams didn't support chunked encoding, >> wasn't it? >> Dmitry: There is no reason why SOAP should be doing its own magic >> anylonger? > > Yes, that was the reason. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/53763 > > - David -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
