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		nubs on April 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency Slightly off topic, but I wanted to clear this up: > The guy uses PHP and instead of built-in HTTPRequest he uses curl to make a request HTTPRequest is not built-in to PHP. It is a PECL extension that is usually installed separately from PHP. Curl is more built-in to PHP - it's a PHP compile-time flag, and it is distributed with PHP source.

acqq on April 19, 2014 [–]

So the best approach for the given problem (just send the request, fetch the response, without too much overhead) seems to be using something a bit lower level:

http://at2.php.net/stream_socket_client

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