Re: Advantage of CURL over using LYNX

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:59:00PM -0400, Dennis Moore wrote: > I need to grab some data from a CGI program running on a different > server. I have been toying around executing LYNX using the passthru > command. I seem to be able to grab the data just fine using "lynx > -source -preparsed $URL". I've started reading about CURL. I am > wondering if it is worth my effort to recompile my server to include > CURL support. Any feedback is appreciated. Why use curl (or an external program like lynx) when you can use file()/readfile()/fopen()/fsockopen(), depending if you just need the source from that cgi or need to mangle it a little? Using PHP build-ins will most likely be faster or at least nicer for your resources. IMHO (never used it) curl is only needed when you need to something fancy like post/put requests. -- Daniel Tryba