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Request for Comments: Removal of curl-wrappers

Version: 1.0
Date: April, 16th 2013
Author: Pierrick Charron pierrick@php.net
Status: Under Discussion

Introduction

This RFC is about removing the curl stream wrappers of the PHP as of 5.5 and to move it on PECL for any eventual improvements.

What this RFC is not about

This RFC is not about removing ext/curl from PHP.

What is the curl stream wrappers feature

The curl-stream-wrappers feature is a replacement for the php's stream implemenation, for fopen and other file_get_contents, not the curl_* functions.

Why should we remove it

This feature has been marked as experimental for years and never turned to stable
Most people using it just do so by accident
This experimental feature should be moved in a new PECL extension for improvements until it gets stable

Patch

https://github.com/adoy/php-src/commit/c3ebd19ab5a022b20509a24578f5ef7fe6f77baf

Changelog

2013-04-16: Initial version