RE: [PHP] PHP+ Curl (on Unix)

Thanks, Jason! __________John Monfort_________________ _+-----------------------------------+_ P E P I E D E S I G N S www.pepiedesigns.com "The world is waiting, are you ready?" -+___________________________________+- On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Jason Murray wrote: > > As I understand it, PHP 4 has CURL support. > > 1) is enabling the curl extension a substitute for installing the curl > > package? > > In other words, if I enable the extension, do I still need to instal > > the CURL package? > > You need to install CURL, and tell PHP where it is when you compile > it, in order to use the extensions. > > > 2) Can I install curl without ROOT access? > > Probably, but I wouldn't know... > > > 3) Does FOPEN() NOT support HTTPS, or do I need to do something > > special. > > Probably not. As I understand it, you need to install some kind > of patch to your system to allow you to open URLs with fopen(). > That's unlikely to support encrypted transactions (https). > > > 4) How else can I innitiate a HTTPS connection on a *NIX system? > > Is Socket the only solution? > > CURL works nicely... I doubt you'd get far with sockets since you > would have to encrypt and decrypt on your own. > > Jasoon > > -- > Jason Murray > jasonm@melbourneit.com.au > Web Developer, Melbourne IT > "Work now, freak later!" >