RE: [PHP-DEV] [BUNDLING] PHP & cURL

i'm +1 on this. i'd like to see cURL get bundled as standard with php distro's. james > -----Original Message----- > From: Sterling Hughes [mailto:sterling@bumblebury.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:07 AM > To: php-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DEV] [BUNDLING] PHP & cURL > > > Hey, > > I'd like to start bundling the cURL distribution with PHP, for both > the curl extension (for starters), as well as replacing alot of the > current ftp & http code to use the cURL library. > > I want to do this for a few reasons, the most poignant are: > > 1) HTTP is a tricky mistress. Incompatibilities, protocol changes, > request features, etc. cURL is a library with the best support for > http and related protocols of all the different libraries out there. > > 2) cURL supports a multitude of different protocols which could be > added to PHP transparently, including HTTPS, HTTP Proxy, DICT, LDAP, > Telnet, etc. > > 3) cURL is fast, not just marginally faster, but quite a bit faster. > Most benchmarks done confirm that its at least 20-30% faster than > PHP's native code. Of course nothing official, but I'd be willing > to bet quite a bit that an "official" benchmark would yield the same > results. > > 4) I don't need to stress how important it is for PHP to have superb > support for interacting with other web programs, even more now with > the advent of "web services" (even though I'm not a huge fan of this > concept). > > 5) cURL is quite popular, and is becoming even more popular lately, > that means we get to take advantage of the work of the talented cURL > developers in PHP, people who are constantly improving and tuning > cURL to support new features, and new ideas. > > well, yeah, that's pretty much it, thoughts? > > -Sterling > > PS: cURL is license compatible, its dual-licensed under the MPL or > the MIT public license. > > -- > I wish I may, I wish I might, GIMME STUFF! > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/wishlist/E7I1IWUJDPB4/ > :))) > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >