Archive for the ‘curl’ Category

Setting up a Solr Index

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Setting up a solr index isn't that hard, but I found the documentation to be somewhat hard to find. It only took me a few hours from start to finish to go from download to indexing my documents, but I think it could have happened a lot faster if ...

How curl_exec and urlencode killed my single sign on

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

If you do any work with single sign on, you'll be familiar with the concept of exchanging tokens and validating against the authentication server using that token. One of the issues I've just run into which resulted in a huge headache is with urlencoding the result of a curl_exec ...

Executing multiple curl requests in parallel with PHP and curl_multi_exec

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Let's get one thing out in the open. Curl is sweet. It does it's job very well, and I'm absoutely thrilled it exists. If you're using curl in your PHP app to make web requests, you've probably realized that by doing them one after the other, the total time of ...