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Asked: 2026-05-13T14:07:07+00:00

I’m working on a PHP Client for CouchDB. While browsing through the php.net documentation

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I’m working on a PHP Client for CouchDB. While browsing through the php.net documentation regarding HTTP and cURL, I came across the PECL_HTTP Extension. At first glance, I think I would like to use this PECL extension instead of cURL because it’s much simpler to use, and I’m not doing very complicated HTTP work anyways. Plus I always like trying new things, so I wouldn’t mind getting my feet wet.

As far as my question to the StackOverflow community:

  • Has anyone used both the PECL_HTTP and cURL extensions?
  • Does the PECL extension have any serious performance issues?
  • Is the PECL extension as user-friendly as it appears on the surface?
  • Is the tried-and-true cURL library still superior?

Edit: As it turns out, the PECL_HTTP extension uses some of the cURL source code under the hood, so they aren’t completely different beasts. Both are also compiled extensions to PHP.

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    The PECL_HTTP extension has proven much simpler to use, almost cutting my code in half in some places. 🙂

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