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Re:Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency by ZoF on Friday April 18, 2014 @10:05PM (#7612277)
HTTPRequest isn't technically built in to PHP.

I agree that they aren't using the correct technology for their use case though.

Re:Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency by acqq on Friday April 18, 2014 @10:38PM (#7612384)
Yes, being a C programmer I knew curl is overkill, but not what's the best lightwieght alternative, now I believe it's:

http://at2.php.net/stream_socket_client