[TYPO3-dev] install tool - deprecated curl functions

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi Robert,

Robert Wildling wrote:

> where the accompanying text says that they are actually deprecated since
> 4.6 and will be removed in 6.2.
> What is the status quo now? Do they work? Are they removed?

They do work and are not removed.

They where introduced with the HttpRequest  (t3lib_http_request) class. I 
planned to refactor the GeneralUtility::getUrl method, however some people 
complained and it turned out that this functions was so much abused (while 
counting on various side effects) that is was almost impossible to refactor 
the whole thing.
The whole getUrl methods behavior depends on various settings, environment 
(php settings) and parameters given, that any sane replacement will almost 
certainly break some backwards compatibility.

Best regards
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