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How to perform web requests with PHP using the cURL extension

The open source libcurl is client-side URL transfer library which supports a lot of protocols like FTP, HTTP, HTTPS and works on a multitude of platforms. The PHP cURL module let us access the functionalities provided by the library from the PHP programming language. In this tutorial we will see how to install the module and how to use it to perform simple requests.

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