The CURL stuff seems so oddly unlike the rest of the PHP commands; it's more-or-less a direct port of the c++ library, names & all included. The place where it

The CURL stuff seems so oddly unlike the rest of the PHP commands; it's more-or-less a direct port of the c++ library, names & all included. The place where it reallllly irritates is the cookie management, but thankfully I didn't have to deal with that in this case. (I did for a client at a newspaper - nightmarish.)