Any issue with dropping curl dependency?

[zanerock]

It seems possible to rewrite (something I'd be happy to contribute to) to use PHP streams rather than rely on curl for the HTTP requests. This has the advantage of actually using (rather than ignoring) HTTPS host verification. Also, it seems to me that vanilla Composer (which Pest supports) is incompatible with curl systems. At least on my setup, if PHP is compiled with curl, (the latest?) composer either fails to install (if --with-curl-wrappers included) or fails at runtime (if 'wrappers' left out, but --with-curl left in).

[zanerock]

After looking into it more, the curl backed method will verify the HTTPS certs if properly configured, in which case the solution might be to conditionally or at least optionally enable the HTTPS checks for curl. Still, might be simpler to remove curl dependency (?).

[zuk]

Sounds good to me. Pest is not getting the love it needs lately. Would you be interested in jumping on as a maintainer/contributor?

[zanerock]

Yes, I would. I'm integrating pest in a number of projects.

[zuk]

Okay you should now have full access to the Pest repo.
https://github.com/djsipe is the other maintainer, but I don't think he's
been too active lately. Judging from your comments, it sounds like you know
what you're doing so I'll leave it to your judgement to decide what changes
to push without breaking things for everyone else who uses the library.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Zane Rockenbaugh <[email protected]

wrote:

Yes, I would.

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