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A helper package used by other Secure Trading packages.

Securetrading\Http\Curl provides a wrapper around the core PHP cURL functions that contains connection retry and logging logic. A \Securetrading\Http\CurlException is thrown if the call it makes to curl_exec() fails.

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Using This Package

Run this in the root directory of your application:

composer require securetrading/http

\Securetrading\Http\Curl - Usage

Instantiate the client like this:

$http = new \Securetrading\Http\Curl($logger, $configData)

# Where:
# $logger implements \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface
# $configData is a multidimensional array of config options.

Valid config options (and their default values) for the constructor are:

array(
    'url' => '',
    'user_agent' => '',
    'ssl_verify_peer' => true,
    'ssl_verify_host' => 2,
    'connect_timeout' => 5,
    'timeout' => 60,
    'http_headers' => array(),
    'ssl_cacertfile' => '',
    'proxy_host' => '',
    'proxy_port' => '',
    'username' => '',
'    password' => '',
    'curl_options' => array(),
    'sleep_seconds' => 1,
    'connect_attempts' => 20,
    'connect_attempts_timeout' => 40,
);

Call send($requestMethod, $requestBody = '') to make HTTP requests.

get() and post($requestBody = '') helper methods have also been provided for GET and POST HTTP requests.