Mike Wallner has announced the release of the first beta of the pecl_http PECL package, an extension that "aims to provide a convenient and powerful set of functionality for one of PHPs major applications."

So, finally a first beta of pecl_http 1.6 has been released. This is the first version which supports libcurls multi socket API introduced in 7.16 through libevent.

The rest of the post shows stats comparing the timing on a normal connection versus using the multi-socket API (on both an empty file and a 100k file).