On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Gaetano Giunta wrote:

> 1 - keep-alives: is it possible to send multiple http requests from PHP-curl
> without closing the socket to the HTTP server? If so, how can it be
> enabled/disabled?

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#7.3

You disable that ability in libcurl by closing the handle after the transfer,
without reusing it.

> 2 - compression: does the support for CURL receiving compressed data does
> depend upon compile-time options (ie explicit linking with zlib vs. php
> linking with zlib)?

PHP/CURL is just a glue layer on top of libcurl. All transfer and socket
related stuff is made by libcurl and thus your libcurl must have been built
with zlib support.

> what happens if curl is compiled without that support and the PHP coder sets
> CURLOPT_ENCODING to 'gzip'? will curl send the gzip header to the sender and
> then pass un-decompressed data back to PHP?

Yes. You are supposed to pass a "" to libcurl if you want to enable the
compression(s) libcurl supports. This is documented in the libcurl docs.

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