Re: spider

On Friday 21 March 2008 19:12:04 Wolf wrote: > ---- Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Wolf <lonewolf@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > > In one word: CURL > > > > > > In another word: WGET > > > > > > Both are pretty effecitve and give pretty much the same results, > > > however with the CURL you can pass other things alone (user:pass) which > > > with wget you can not do. > > > > pilotpig@pilotpig.net [~/www/img]# wget --help|grep -i password > > --password=PASS set both ftp and http password to PASS. > > --http-password=PASS set http password to PASS. > > --proxy-password=PASS set PASS as proxy password. > > --ftp-password=PASS set ftp password to PASS. > > Nice, your guy's version of wget is better then mine! I tried that once > (granted that was years ago now that I think about it) and it keeled over > and died! > > OK, so I stand corrected there... But has anyone seen a PHP port of wget > or is curl the only one of the 2 which does it natively in a compiled > version of php with curl? :) > > If it works natively in PHP, then there are 2 choices and neither has to be > executed outside of PHP. :) so natively isn't alway the best. example: I've a hard time thinking php image handling is better than programs designed for it, neither in speed & accuracy/quality. lol notepad in windows ;D *ot but still a faint quantity of high altitude oxygene loss during easter* I've got to mention that I'm pretty unfamiliar with curl. > > Wolf -- --- Børge Holen http://www.arivene.net