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#1: Jul 3 '08
Hi, all
With PHP 8.2.x, can we communicate remote web server without using curl library? Thank you in advance!

Jack

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#2: Jul 3 '08

re: communicate with remote server


PHP 8 is out?

And here's me using old PHP 5!
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#3: Jul 3 '08

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heheheh... even i am the one who is lagging on php5
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#4: Jul 3 '08

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jack, php 6 is still in development, php 8 is till 4 years away
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#5: Jul 4 '08

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Sorry, made a big mistake! It' PHP 5.2.x
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#6: Jul 4 '08

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Heya, Jack.

cURL is generally the preferred method, but you might have some success using streams (http://php.net/stream_context_create).
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