cURL (in PHP) is awesome!
March 31, 2003, 03:03 pmFriday, I had to make a buncha changes to a PHP class I wrote to handle creditcard transactions through Skipjack. Originally, I used lynx to connect to a https site, send form data, receive a response, and then parse it, but for some still unknown reason, lynx wouldn't work. So I used cURL and – after a quick rewrite for posting the form data – it works like a champ.
Today, I'm writing some image handling functions for our framework (thumbnail generation, etc.) and I stumbled upon the curl extention in PHP. It's freakin' awesome! And then I checked out curl's homepage and found this incredible list of impressive features. While I don't yet have a use for it, I know sometime in the future I'll use it.