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Asked: 2026-05-22T01:50:58+00:00

I currently use pretty exclusively the PHP stream context functionality (see https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php ) to

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I currently use pretty exclusively the PHP stream context functionality (see https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php) to access HTTP resources and I’ve been able to successfully use it to do PUTs, DELETEs, POSTs, manage cookies and do just about everything I’ve needed to do. I originally started using it because I had SSL issues with earlier Debian PHP cURL builds (there was an OpenSSL double-initialization issue within the Apache process that errored out when trying to access SSL urls): those are probably fixed now but I’ve not had occasion to go back.

In discussions with a friend he contended that the cURL api is faster/better so I wanted to ask: is there any definite experience/knowledge about which option is superior, and in what ways?

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    In regards to performance, cURL wins by a lot consistently. I won’t deny that it’s harder to use and it might not matter for general use, but the difference was pretty dramatic and I thought it was worth pointing out.

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