I need to call two or three known URLs really quickly. I am writing a command line app where speed is imperative!
Does curl open a socket itself?
Are there any benchmarks?
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I need to call two or three known URLs really quickly. I am writing a command line app where speed is imperative!
Does curl open a socket itself?
Are there any benchmarks?
I’d say you’re better off using cURL (yes, it opens its own sockets), because it knows HTTP better than cobbling a non-standard client together with fsockopen() and friends probably will.
And well – if you’re absolutely serious about needing blazing fast HTTP-loadin’ performance (define “really quickly”), you’ll have to use something other than PHP.
EDIT: Do the pages change often? If not, (mem)cache their contents locally and you shouldn’t have too much problems.