Thanks Manuel, I will take a look at it. I do have complete control over the
box this is running on, so I can rebuild PHP with support for CURL and
OpenSSL if necessary. My main concern is having a robust approach that is
fast and efficient under a high load.


On 7/2/04 5:55 PM, "Manuel Lemos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 07/02/2004 01:40 PM, Shaun Fanning wrote:
>> I need to interface with a partner's XML API and they require that the XML
>> request be sent via HTTPS POST. I also need to parse the XML response that
>> the partner's server will send back. Is CURL the best way to handle the
>> transfer or something like PEAR HTTP_Request? I'm looking for the approach
>> that will be the most reliable under heavy load. Thanks for any advice.
> 
> SSL (HTTPS) support is a little tricky. Some hosts may or may not
> provide curl or openssl PHP extensions that are necessary to support SSL.
> 
> You may want to try this popular HTTP client that makes SSL requests
> figuring automatically whether it is possible to use curl or openssl for
> you. The usage of the class is the same regardless which of the
> libraries is available.
> 
> It already comes with an example to make XML HTTP POST requests:
> 
> http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
> 

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