Hello, (Hallo!)
I'm searching an abstraction layer from pure HTTP-POST/-GET using curl. It should somehow make it easy to define the Targeted script and it's variables.
I read something exists in the FreeX (german unix/programming magazine), but don't have the named magazine at hand.
What can I do? Stick with curl? What alternatives do exist?
Thank you in advance :)
If you want something more sophisticated, there is the Zend_Http_Client ZF Component.
You might want to look at the HTTP Extension. It looks like a pretty complete abstraction implemented over curl.
You can use Streams to POST also. I generally prefer that over an extension or even cURL since it's core PHP and more likely to be there.
Though, I build open source software that gets installed on machines where the user has low privileges and likely zero control. Your users' options may be different.
As you tagged you question with "perl", you can use Perl. Try LWP - popular module, and much more convenient than curl. For more complex tasks, try WWW::Mechanize.