On Sep 3, 2013, at 10:49 AM, "Coombs,Karen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Option 2. - Use HTTPful code library (http://phphttpclient.com/). This is a well developed and supported code base which is designed specifically to support REST interactions. It is easy to install via Composer or Phar, or manually. It is slim and trim and only does the HTTP Client functions. It does create a dependency on an external (but small) library.

If OCLC were to develop sample modules in Perl used to interact with their Web Services, then I would hope these modules would be based on a set of Perl libraries called LWP. But since the sample modules are to be written in PHP, then Option #2 looks like the most feasible to me. My 2¢. --ELM