[horde] Using curl wrappers instead of fopen

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Daniel Reich <me at danielreich.com>:

> I'd like to offer up an alternative to using fopen.  Granted curl is yet
> another module to install, but I think it'd be useful.  I wrote a quick
> function that uses curl to grab a URL via proxy (authenticated too).
> 
> I thought this could go into the Horde library.  And if this is ok, I'd
> like to write another function which will act as a wrapper so that if
> you have curl extensions installed it will use curl, otherwise it will
> use fopen.  Other horde modules could utilize this to pull down lots of
> URLs (ie Jonah).  I should probably extend this to handle cookies in
> some fashion too now that I'm looking back...

You should take a look at Snoopy.php in horde/lib. IIRC it currently uses
the curl command line interface but it probably can be extended to use the
extension if available.

Jan.

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