Posted by Colin McKinnon on 06/14/05 16:11

mahbubur045@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> I am little new in php environment. For one of my project I tried to do
> http communication(e.g XML message exchange) in php using cURL. is ther
> any limitaion/problem/overhead using php/curl for that purpose?
>
> Your comments are highly appreciable.
>

Nope - I've run benchmarks using various implementations in PHP and using
libcURL was the fastest (running the `curl` program was the slowest, also
tried 'file()', 'file_get_contents()' and my own URL wrapper with
'fsockopen()'). You can even do strange things like client side
certificates.

Only issue is when the other end doesn't really speak HTTP - I've got a
couple of companies I deal with whom *claim* they talk HTTP, but don't.

HTH

C.

[Back to original message]