is there any way open a https url without using curl (which my install of php dosnt have) also. i have confirmed that i can download https content from perl on the same system.. is there any way to execute a perl script and catch all the output to a varible?
libcurl is outstanding stuff, try to compile in if you can!
you could use the 'exec' function in PHP, but READ the MANUAL on this bugger. You can expose a significant security hole. Other than it'll return the perl output. 🙂
You could also use fsockopen(), but then you have to do all the headers yourself.
