Re: Re: HTTP_Request2
| From: | Daniel O'Connor | Date: | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:47:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: HTTP_Request2 | ||
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>> Again, why do we need "adapters" ? sorry but I just don't get it.
>> It makes sense for a db package but here...
>> Sockets are fine, shipped by default and available on any platform you can
>> imagine.
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> Handling all the processing in php is slow and uses more memory
> Sockets don't do ssl
> Curl and the HTTP extension give use extra features like having multiple
> inflight http requests
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Don't forget that if there was a mock http adapter which can provide
canned/simulated responses, loads of packages in PEAR just got a lot more
easy to unit test.