MediaWiki has an Http class (see includes/HttpFunctions.php) wrapping cURL which falls back to fopen() if cURL is unavailable and throwing a helpful exception if neither is available.
On the other hand Collection uses curl_*() functions directly. This doesn't allow for fallback to fopen() and doesn't display a helpful exception when cURL is unavailable but causes an opaque fatal error which has to be dug up from the error log.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
mhershberger wrote:
Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734
The MediaWiki Http class does not support POST requests. A POST request is required to send the book to a render server. Therefor, switching to HTTP::*() is not an option. The cURL module is a requirement for the collection extension to work.
I suggest to display a prominent error message in case the cURL module is not installed.
Yes it does
$http = MWHttpRequest::factory( 'http://www.address.com', array( 'method' => 'POST', 'postData' => array( 'foo' => 'bar', ) ) );