Is there a PHP library equivalent to cURL that does not need to be installed?

Question

I am trying to proxy through php for a JS RSS feed. The company I am doing this for may or may not want cURL installed. If that is the case I may need some sort of library that can simply be included in php rather than go through apache and all of that. Is there a library that can handle something like that? What other options do I have in this case?

Thanks!

Answer 1

wget, fopen, and file_get_contents are other options you can use to use for a proxy.

Answer 2

Zend_HTTP provides a wrapper for fopen, file_get_contents and CURL out of the box, it makes it much more simpler to store / read cookies, make POST requests and so on.