Compatability

Hi Peter,

It depends on your remote storage method.

S3, Dropbox, CloudFiles and Google Drive all require Curl. FTP, SFTP, SCP and WebDAV do not require Curl.

Really, though, I’d recommend you get a different web hosting company. If they disable Curl, but do not disable all networking, then they are not raising security. What is done in Curl can be done in pure PHP (just with a lot of programmer effort). It sounds like that is your situation – you want something that reimplements Curl functionality in pure PHP. But, if your host allows the same operations as Curl performs to be performed by other means, then they have not really raised security, only annoyance!

David

David,
I use a very good hosting provider, but because im on a shared server maybe this is why.
I see that WebDAV uses several providers some are free example: https://owndrive.com/ would this work for your plugin.

Peter

Hi Peter,

To give it some perspective; after 700,000 downloads of UD, the number of times I’ve heard of a server with Curl disabled is somewhere between 5 and 10, if I recall correctly. It is extremely unusual, whether on shared hosting or otherwise (for the reason mentioned: if the hoster’s real aim is to disable networking, then it’s simpler to do that rather than disable some network-enabled parts of PHP whilst leaving others available).

The WebDAV add-on (https://updraftplus.com/shop/webdav/) should be compatible with any WebDAV server that’s compliant with the WebDAV specification; there are lots of different ones, so we can’t test it on them all, but we’re not aware of any it is not compliant with. We test it against Apache/mod_webdav and ownCloud; other customers have some others, but I couldn’t name them off the top of my head.

Best wishes,
David