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Es gibt wie immer viele Wege etwas zu erreichen.

Sieh dir mal PEAR::HTTP::Client an.

[EDIT] ad cURL:

Wie immer ein Auszug aus dem Manual (1. Absatz):

PHP supports libcurl, a library created by Daniel Stenberg, that allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols. libcurl currently supports the http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file, and ldap protocols. libcurl also supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading (this can also be done with PHP's ftp extension), HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, and user+password authentication.

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