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Name:	PHP HTTP protocol client Support forum
Base name:	`httpclient`
Description:	HTTP client to access Web site pages
Related classes:	http, forum, ssl, HTTP POST, http client, post, Manuel Lemos, Access
Version:	`-`
PHP version:	`3`
License:	BSD License
All time users:	32476 users
All time rank:	10
Week users:	42 users
Week rank:	39

Author:	Manuel Lemos `<e-mail contact>`
Packages:	32 Browse this author's classes
Country:	Portugal - PHP jobs in Portugal
Age:	43
All time rank:	1
Week rank:	3	1 in Portugal

	Detailed description

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.

	Groups

Networking	Networking protocols, clients and servers	View top rated classes
HTTP	HTTP protocol clients, headers and cookies	View top rated classes
Web services	Web data clipping, SOAP or XML-RPC clients and servers	View top rated classes

	Screenshots		Freshmeat project		User ratings		Dependencies

	Dependents		Trackback		Applications		Files

	Screenshots

File	Role	Description
`httpclient.gif`	Screen	Submitting a SOAP request via HTTP POST

	Freshmeat project

Project record:	`httpclass`
Popularity score:	423.73
Vitality score:	48.54

	User ratings

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Good (89.7%)`	`Good (86.7%)`	`-`	`Good (81.4%)`	`Sufficient (77.7%)`	`-`	`Sufficient (69.4%)`	208
Month:	Not yet rated by the users

	Packages needed by this class

Class	Dependency	Why it is needed
Simple Authentication and Security Layer	Conditional	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).

	Packages that need this class

Class	Dependency	Why it is needed
AIM	Required	connectivity to Authorize.net server
Akismet class	Required	For http protocol
Amazon S3 Stream Wrapper	Required	This class is the base for open HTTP Communication
File Exchange Protocol	Required	The Filesystem is working over HTTP/1.0
French White Pages	Required	HTTP Post Query
Freshmeat project query class	Required	Access the Freshmeat site with HTTP protocol
From Browser - Youtube Upload	Required	For HTTP negociation
gHttp	Required	This class is the base for open HTTP
PHP Git	Conditional	In order to run run git_http_client.php
PHP Print IPP	Conditional	IPP protocol transits by http. Here is a compatible and stable http backend.
PHP SVN Client	Required	for http(s) protocol
SOAP server class	Optional	Used in the SOAP client example script
WAP Push	Required	The wPush uses this class for the POST query.

	Trackback links

Link	Description
12 cosas que necesitas saber acerca PHP	Hola a todos, leyendo mi mailing list de PHPClasses me topo con un artículo interesante en inglés llamado “12 things you need to know about PHP” en un blog llamado Compdigitec Labs...
12 things you need to know about PHP	Are you still thinking that PHP is an web-only language or is “not a real language”?...
Alternative to CURL in Moriarty	I just checked in a small update to moriarty that might solve a problem some people have experienced using curl...
Blast from the past	About a year ago I was dabbling and creating a simple PHP webapp at work to allow us to perform various operations on our platform stores used in development...
http client	-
PHP HTTP Class	I’ve found a great PHP script that can essentially turn a web server into a virtual browser...
PHP HTTP Class 2	Revisiting the topic of my previous post, I’ve played around some more with this PHP HTTP Class...
Save yourself some work: important PHP classes/libraries/projects for developers	From sending mail with attachments to fetching content via RSS to sending a trackback - a list of common coding tasks that is solved with good existing code...

Latest blog trackback links

	Applications that use this class

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

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	Files

File	Role	Description
`http.php`	Class	HTTP class file
`LICENSE.txt`	Lic.	BSD like license
`test_cookies.php`	Test	Unit test script to verify cookie manipulation functions
`test_http.php`	Example	HTTP class test page script
`test_http_cookies.php`	Example	Script to test cookie support
`test_http_image_request.php`	Example	Example script on how to request an image from a remote site to made available through a local server
`test_http_post.php`	Example	Emulate a form submission using HTTP POST submitting form field values including file uploads
`test_http_soap.php`	Example	Example script on how to make a request to SOAP service
`yahoo_export_address_book.php`	Example	Script to login in Yahoo and export the user address book
`yahoo_group_invite.php`	Example	Script to login in Yahoo and invite users to a Yahoo!Groups mailing list
`yahoo_user.php`	Class	Class to login and access resources for Yahoo registered users

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