note 107871 deleted from book.curl by danbrown

Note Submitter: Jeff ---- There are numerous PHP methods of reading web pages. One might start by opening, reading and closing. One might use file_get_contents. Stream options might be set up. Curl might be used. Making sure that cookies are received and returned in an appropriate fashion might even be needed on occasion. Etc. But it has always been the case that I could find a PHP solution to read a web page. While I did find a solution (and I have not needed to use "Tor" as a component), I am sad to say I have not yet found a PHP solution. So . . . Perhaps the challenge (for developers far younger than I) is to come up with several PHP solutions to truly make the interactions between PHP and the web server (it is an IIS that is currently winning the battle) appear to truly be from IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. There are no security issues. It is a public website. The robots meta tag is inviting - index, follow. Perhaps this would be a good summertime PHP project?