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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 ...

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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 ...

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