# Connections WITHOUT curl (PHP)

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connections-without-curl-php/163997
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [September 27, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connections-without-curl-php/163997 "2005-09-27T21:51:16Z")
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### Author: ![cholin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@cholin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cholin)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connections-without-curl-php/163997/1 "2005-09-27T21:51:16Z")

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Hey guys 🙂

Every now and then, a PHP question comes out of me, this time it’s about sending and receiving headers over a connection in PHP. I’m trying to connect to the nexus MSN server ([https://nexus.passport.com:443](https://nexus.passport.com:443)) for a mass project I’m working on (you probably already know now…). Thing is, I can connect no problem, but I don’t understand how to grab info without using CURL libraries! I looked for an example and it used curl for this and fwrite for everything else, so Im guessing theres a reason.

ANY INFO?