It is a PHP wrapper for curl.

The main idea was just to make HTTP requests with one-liners. And cookie support out-of-the box.

For something more complex you probably want Guzzle.

Like that.

HttpClient::from(['useRandomCookieFile' => true])->get('http://httpbin.org/get');

HttpClient::from()->post('http://httpbin.org/post', ['foo' => 'bar']);

HttpClient::from()->download('http://httpbin.org/image/jpeg', 'my-new-image-file.jpeg');

• head($url, $params = array()) - performs http request to get responce headers.
• get($url, $params = array()) - performs http GET request.
• post($url, $post = array(), $params = array()) - performs http POST request.
• download($url, $dest, $post = array(), $params = array()) - downloads file.
• request($params) - performs http request.
• getInfo($opt = null) - Returns information about the last transfer. Details

• url - (string) request url.
• post - (string|array) request POST data.
• ref - (string) "Referer" request header content.
• header - (boolean, default = false) whether to include response header into response.
• nobody - (boolean, default = false) whether to NOT include response body into response.
• timeout - (integer, default = 15) request timeout.
• tofile - (string, default = null) output file name. If defined - response will be saved to that file.
• attempts_max - (integer, default = 1) maximum number of attempts to perform HTTP request.
• attempts_delay - (integer, default = 10) delay between attempts, in seconds

• $lastError - (string) last request error.
• $info - (array) information about the last transfer.
• $httpCode - (integer) last received HTTP code.
• $effectiveUrl - (string) last effective url.
• $cookies - (array) cookies array. Warning, after calling this property you will be not able to get another properties.