On 6/20/07, Sean Robertson <seanr@ngpsoftware.com> wrote:

Curl is frequently not available. I've had to have it installed a few
times, but a LOT of people won't even have that as an option

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.

For sites that do need high performance aggregation of content, they will have control over their environment.

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.....

drupal_socket_request with plugins for different things? Interesting thought....

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