Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/12/07 15:50

Jonah Bishop wrote:

> Assuming I was unable to use the cURL library in my PHP code (due to
> mostly non-technical reasons), what alternatives do I have to do user
> authentication and checking the resulting HTTP response codes?

There's the HTTP_Request PEAR library; you could use system() to call a
command-line tool such as "/usr/bin/wget" or "/usr/bin/GET"; or you could
use plain old TCP sockets and your own code to make the requests (as HTTP
is a very simple text-based protocol).

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