SlotHttpClient - A simple socket based HTTP Client

What does it?

This Bundle is bringing you a simple, lightweight and versatile HTTP client for Symfony2. It uses sockets build into PHP, so you don't need any eternal libraries like CURL etc.

Features include

• SSL support
• GET and POST requests
• File downloads
• Custom Headers
• Custom Ports
• GZip compression
• Basic Authentication

Limitations

The client is pretty dumb. It supports standard HTTP Protocol, sends requests and return headers and body. It will not automatically interpret responses like json or xml but it will always make sure that Gzip-compressed responses are being inflated for you, so you can get the string and do what ever you want with it.

Installation

Add Bundle to your deps file:

[SlotHttpBundle] git=git://github.com/slot/HttpBundle.git target=/bundles/Slot/HttpBundle

then run

bin/vendors install

After successful installation add the bundle to autoload.php and AppKernel.php

autoload.php

$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
<?php
// app/autoload.php

$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
  // ...
  'Slot'          => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles',
  );
?>

<?php
// app/AppKernel.php

public function registerBundles()
{
    $bundles = array(
        // ...
        new FOS\UserBundle\FOSUserBundle(),
    );
}

Usage

** GET Request **

<?php

   $client = get('http.client');

   $client->get('http://www.google.com');

   echo $client->getResponseBody();

?>