<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Robertson</b> <<a href="mailto:seanr@ngpsoftware.com">seanr@ngpsoftware.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Curl is frequently not available. I've had to have it installed a few<br>times, but a LOT of people won't even have that as an option<br></blockquote></div><br>This is another one of those "must be pluggable" or "fallback" areas. For random ass shared hosting (hereafter known as RASH), we can't necessarily support high performance aggregation of content.
<br><br>For sites that do need high performance aggregation of content, they will have control over their environment.<br><br>And re: curl handling authenticated feeds -- storing user + pass in the database in cleartext as part of the feed URL is not really a great solution.....
<br><br>drupal_socket_request with plugins for different things? Interesting thought....<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Boris Mann<br>Office 604-682-2889<br>Skype borismann<br><a href="http://www.bryght.com">http://www.bryght.com
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