MySQL get content from web page (or other network resource)

Question

Is it possible to open a curl like object in MySQL?

What I would like to do is create procedure which would check to see if a certain value is returned from a specific URL like http://example.com/inschedule?id=200&time=20m. The returned result would be a simple string like 1 or 0.

I know it is better to have a script do this by putting a entry into a table etc. However, it would be much less complex for me to be able to do it this way.

Thanks

Answer 1

Don't ask your refrigerator to make a coffee.
Mysql is a database demon. Some database servers even can dance a polka for you, yes. But mysql will not. It merely serve SQL requests. And you're terrible wrong about complexities. You'll have a lot of them, trying to implement it this way

Answer 2

I found this Curl (UDF) Functions for MySQL so I guess it is possible. I have not tired it yet so I can't say how well it works.