curl vs fsockopen

[makossa5]

hello,

I' m developping a web page html parser.
For now I get the page using fsockopen. A friend of mine advised me to use curl, but I don' t really understand why it would be better using curl.

That' s why I ask the question :

what are the differences between fsockopen and curl???

Thanx.

[laserlight]

You might want to read the PHP Manual concerning CURL and [man]fsockopen/man.