Class: HTTP protocol client

Class that implements requests to Web resources using the HTTP protocol.

It features:

- May submit HTTP requests with any method, to any page, to any server, connecting to any port.
- Provides support to setup connection and request arguments from a given URL.
- May submit requests via a proxy server with support for authentication if necessary.
- May establish connections via a SOCKS server.
- Supports HTTP direct access or proxy based authentication mechanisms via SASL class library like HTTP Basic, HTTP Digest or NTLM (Windows or Samba).
- Support secure connections (https) via Curl library with SSL support, or at least PHP 4.3.0 with OpenSSL support, or via a non-SSL HTTP proxy server.
- Supports accessing secure pages using SSL certificates and private keys using Curl library
- Supports user defined request headers.
- Supports POST requests with a user defined array of form values.
- Supports POST requests with a user defined request bodies for instance for making requests to SOAP services.
- Supports streaming requests that require uploading large amounts of data of undefined length in small chunks to avoid exceeding PHP memory limits
- Supports requests to sites hosting virtual Web servers.
- Retrieves the HTTP response headers and body data separately.
- Support HTTP 1.1 chunked content encoding
- Supports session and persistent cookies.
- Provides optional handling of redirected pages.
- Supports defining connection and data transfer timeout values.
- Can output connection debug information in plain text or formatted as HTML.
- An add-on class is provided to login to Yahoo sites and perform actions on the behalf of the logged users like exporting the user address book or sending invitation to a group.

When the HTTP server requires authentication, the SASL package provides support for implementing authentication mechanisms like: Basic, Digest, PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, NTLM (Windows or Linux/Unix with Samba).

connectivity to Authorize.net server

For http protocol

This class is the base for open HTTP Communication

The Filesystem is working over HTTP/1.0

HTTP Post Query

Access the Freshmeat site with HTTP protocol

This class is the base for open HTTP

IPP protocol transits by http. Here is a compatible and stable http backend.

for http(s) protocol

Used in the SOAP client example script

The wPush uses this class for the POST query.

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Uses this class to download new versions of the program and the IP to country database files

HTTP class file

BSD like license

Unit test script to verify cookie manipulation functions

HTTP class test page script

Script to test cookie support

Example script on how to request an image from a remote site to made available through a local server

Emulate a form submission using HTTP POST submitting form field values including file uploads

Example script on how to make a request to SOAP service

Script to login in Yahoo and export the user address book

Script to login in Yahoo and invite users to a Yahoo!Groups mailing list

Class to login and access resources for Yahoo registered users