I had the same problem a while ago and ended up writing a patch to make PHP's HTTP library more flexible: http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=15223 http://pecl

I had the same problem a while ago and ended up writing a patch to make PHP's HTTP library more flexible: http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=15223 http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=15223