On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM, John Campbell <jcampbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > It doesn't work on some installs, may break with ssl, doesn't support > cookies reliably, can't handle http errors, may or may not follow > redirects, etc. simple_xml_load_file() on a > remote resource is great for article writers because they don't have > to have a bunch of boilerplate curl code in the article, but it is a > mistake for a real application.
Yeah, second that. I'm not a curl believer so I use PHP streams, but same difference. The reason I use sockets / streams is because you have very fine control over both connection and transmission timeouts. file_get_contents() and friends are perfectly happy to wait around for 30 seconds when connecting to a slow server. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
