---- "Børge Holen" <borge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 21 March 2008 19:12:04 Wolf wrote: > > ---- Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Wolf <lonewolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > In one word: CURL > > > > > > > > In another word: WGET > > > > > > > > Both are pretty effecitve and give pretty much the same results, > > > > however with the CURL you can pass other things alone (user:pass) which > > > > with wget you can not do. > > > > > > pilotpig@xxxxxxxxxxxx [~/www/img]# wget --help|grep -i password > > > --password=PASS set both ftp and http password to PASS. > > > --http-password=PASS set http password to PASS. > > > --proxy-password=PASS set PASS as proxy password. > > > --ftp-password=PASS set ftp password to PASS. > > > > Nice, your guy's version of wget is better then mine! I tried that once > > (granted that was years ago now that I think about it) and it keeled over > > and died! > > > > OK, so I stand corrected there... But has anyone seen a PHP port of wget > > or is curl the only one of the 2 which does it natively in a compiled > > version of php with curl? :) > > > > If it works natively in PHP, then there are 2 choices and neither has to be > > executed outside of PHP. :) > > so natively isn't alway the best. > example: I've a hard time thinking php image handling is better than programs > designed for it, neither in speed & accuracy/quality. > lol notepad in windows ;D *ot but still a faint quantity of high altitude > oxygene loss during easter* > I've got to mention that I'm pretty unfamiliar with curl. > True, but some sites require natively running instead of running things via exec, system, etc... Heck, I use Editpad, the version from circa 1993... ;) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
