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	1. PHP HTTP protocol client		http client

Supplied by: Manuel Lemos <e-mail contact>

HTTP client to access Web site pages

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.

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%)`	209
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	2. Client and Server Socket		http client

Supplied by: Gustavo Gomes <e-mail contact>

Implement TCP/IP client and servers

This package can be use to implement generic TCP/IP clients and servers.

It can create client and server sockets for connections using TCP and UDP protocols under IPv4, IPv6 and UNIX domain.

The client class can establish connections to a given address and port, send and retrieve data.

The server class can accept connections to a given local port.

There are also classes for resolving host names, parsing URLs and establishing HTTP connections.

NOTE: This package is part of the WebMeshFramework and is not more maintained here. See more about this framework in: https://sourceforge.net/projects/webmesh/

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Perfect (100.0%)`	`Good (96.4%)`	`-`	`Good (82.1%)`	`-`	`-`	`Sufficient (67.9%)`	288
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	3. WebDAV client		http client

Supplied by: Chris Juerges <e-mail contact>

WebDAV client to access files in a HTTP server

This class implements a WebDAV protocol client that is nearly conformant to RFC 2518 to modify resources on a HTTP server.

It supports operations GET, PUT, MOVE, COPY, etc., either using HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Good (95.0%)`	`Good (85.0%)`	`-`	`Good (80.0%)`	`-`	`-`	`Sufficient (64.0%)`	513
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	4. Advanced HTTP Client		http client

Supplied by: GuinuX <e-mail contact>

GET, HEAD, POST methods with a lot of features

A http client class which Supports :
* HTTP Proxy with Basic Authentication
* multipart/form-data AND application/x-www-form-urlencoded
* GET, HEAD and POST methods
* HTTP cookies
* Chunked Transfer-Encoding
* HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 protocols
* Keep-Alive Connections
* Basic WWW-Authentication

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Good (93.8%)`	`Good (89.4%)`	`-`	`Sufficient (77.5%)`	`-`	`-`	`Sufficient (63.6%)`	535
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	5. Curl HTTP Client		http client

Supplied by: Dragan Dinic <e-mail contact>

HTTP client using the PHP Curl library

This class implements an HTTP client using the PHP Curl library extension.

It can perform HTTP GET or POST requests taking an array as the list of POST parameters.

The class can set request referrer, authentication credentials, connection peer IP address, etc..

It can also collect cookies sent by the server in a cookie jar file.

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Good (93.8%)`	`Good (84.4%)`	`-`	`Sufficient (75.0%)`	`-`	`-`	`Sufficient (62.8%)`	588
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	6. PHP RPC Lite		http client

Supplied by: Gregory <e-mail contact>

Simple RPC client and server based only on PHP

This package implements a lightweight remote procedure call server and client for calling functions in a distinct server also running a PHP script.

It can be used for invoking distributed services running on different Web servers running PHP.

The PHP RPC client takes function call arguments and marshalls to a PHP RPC server using HTTP POST method.

The server executes the function that was invoked and returns the results to the client as part of the server script response.

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Good (90.9%)`	`Good (84.1%)`	`-`	`Good (86.4%)`	`-`	`-`	`Sufficient (62.5%)`	621
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