Re: [PHP4BETA] proposed fopen_wrappers generalization / patch v.2

[email protected] (Sascha Schumann) Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:37:46 +0200 (CEST)

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On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, Sascha Schumann wrote:
> >     I'm +1 on the concept though. If that gets committed, I'll
> >     look into integrating libfetch into PHP.
> 
> What is libfetch?

    http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libfetch/

    It's a very lightwheight library supporting HTTP and FTP.
    Advantages:

    -   better HTTP support (i.e. handles redirects)
    -   "      FTP  "       (i.e. active and passive connections)
    -   proxy support
    -   we do not need to maintain it
    -   BSD licensed

    - Sascha