[TYPO3-english] Working with remote files

[Steffen Gebert]

On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:15:18 +0200, Andreas Cord-Landwehr  
<phoenixx at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:

> Hello, I'm on the search for some improvements on one of my scripts. I
> have an extension that gets a remote XML file from another server,
> processes this file and gives some outputs.
> At the moment I am working with raw "fsockopen" and HTTP requests to get
> this file. But I'm not convinced that this the best way 'cause I assume
> Typo3 must include some functionality to make this easier.
>
> Does anybody has an idea/suggestion what to use?

t3lib_div::getURL()

see:
http://www.t3node.com/typo3api/trunk/d3/d3d/classt3lib__div.html#b8a7abae139f34ef7474b63160b26b31

Steffen