Title: Curl Extension
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Curl Extension

 *  [mauritsharmsen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauritsharmsen/)
 * (@mauritsharmsen)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-extension/)
 * Hello,
 * I have a Question. I installed the plugin WP-Hyves. To use it I must have CURL
   extension enabled in my php configuration. Can anyone tell me what they mean 
   and what I must do now?
 * Thank you very much
 * Maurits
    [http://www.mauritsharmsen.nl](http://www.mauritsharmsen.nl)

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 *  [Knight Vash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infiniteknight/)
 * (@infiniteknight)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-extension/#post-1016777)
 * Maurits, CURL is akin to Lynx, in that it is a console / text mode app… It allows
   languages such as PHP to retrieve web pages, from remote hosts, or otherwise 
   execute code, such as a maintance script for an advertisement service or such,
   that is being called through cron (some are designed to be standalone, others
   run via CURL, due to the way they send their output back), so end users can get
   error reports, etc…
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL)
 * It is commonly installed on Linux based webhosts, but whether you can access 
   it or not, is dependent on your hosting provider. The best I can say is drop 
   an email to your server admin, and see if it’s accessible, and if you need a 
   specific path to access it or such…

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-extension/#post-1016777)
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