[wp-hackers] Preferred method of fetching remote webpage?

[Jason Salaz]

On 6/22/06, Viper007Bond <lists at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> However, should I be using Snoopy or something for this? I mean, is
> there any drawback to using fsockopen?

remote fsock open can be disabled by the server admin.
curl can possibly not exist (but should be used as a fallback, or
maybe as the primary with fsock as the fallback).