Posted by Ray Hauge on 01/04/06 00:22

Thanks for the info!

Manuel Lemos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> on 01/03/2006 06:52 PM Ray Hauge said the following:
>
>> I just wanted to see if anyone knew if there was any difference in
>> performance between using curl in an exec() statement and when using
>> the libCurl functions within PHP.
>
>
> Executing a separate program should be a little slower as it adds some
> overhead before executing a request. Actually, in some cases it can be
> a little faster to use fsockopen instead of libcurl as it is one less
> library to load.
>
> You may also want to take a look at this HTTP client class that uses
> fsockopen everytime it is possible and only uses libcurl functions in
> certain cases. This class takes care of cookie handling, redirection,
> form posting, file uploading, etc..
>
> http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
>
>

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