Basic doubt in PHP/CURL

[epalani83]

Hi,

If we use curl functions for web services, then its comes under which delivery method: Normal HTTP post or Direct socket interface?

sample code:
ob_start();
$ch = curl_init ($output_url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $output_transaction);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$process_result = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Regards,
Palani

[bradgrafelman]

Well, both are one and the same. A "normal HTTP post" is simply a socket connection opening on port 80 of the remote webserver, sending data, receiving data, and then possibly closing the connection.