Using cURL in PHP to access HTTPS (SSL/TLS) protected sites » unitstep.netFrom PHP, you can access the useful cURL Library (libcurl) to make requests to URLs using a variety of protocols such as HTTP, FTP, LDAP and even Gopher. (If you’ve spent time on the *nix command line, most environments also have the curl command available that uses the libcurl library) In practice, however, the most commonly-used protocol tends to be HTTP, especially when using PHP for server-to-
