Any way to use modx without CURL?

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sottwell Reply #21, 13 years, 8 months ago
I do know that Evo works just fine, as I've been maintaining an Evo site for years on a host without it.

Testing the libcurl_emulator library on that host, it does appear to work just fine.
```
<?php
require_once('assets/lib/libcurl/libcurlemu.inc.php');

// create a new CURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://sottwell.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);

// close CURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
```
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Everett Reply #22, 13 years, 8 months ago
I wonder if MODx really needs cURL, or if just the package manager needs it... there may be some tests etc. that test for it, and you might get install errors...

The bottom line is that if cURL is not installed on your servers, then it might be too difficult to use MODx. But maybe we can make a feature request for a way to disable the checks. I think it's perfectly legitimate for security reasons if your host needs to disable cURL and instead of the convenience of the package manager, you instead have to upload packages manually.

curl_init appears in these files:
- ./model/aws/lib/requestcore/requestcore.class.php
- ./model/modx/rest/modrestclient.class.php
- ./model/modx/rest/modrestcurlclient.class.php
- ./model/modx/transport/modtransportpackage.class.php
- ./model/modx/xmlrpc/xmlrpc.inc
- ./model/phpthumb/phpthumb.functions.php
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