On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote:

> Explain this:
>
> curl_init
> URL
> CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER
> CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION
> curl_exec
> extract key
> URL
> CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
> curl_exec
> curl_close
>
> upon the 2nd url\curl_exec the page is reloaded,

No it isn't. CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS implies a POST and it does not "reload" any
page at all. Unless you by "reload" mean that it sends a request and gets
contents back.

> OR does curl-php work such that every line is executed as it is written, and
> does not buffer url, return transfer, post-true, etc... until curl_exec is
> issued?

I'm not sure what you mean, but yes the request is done by curl_exec().

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