Why any use of cURL and socket PHP functions fails in my WHM plugin ?

Hello,

I'm working on a WHM plugins I placed at /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi and prefixed with addon_ like this: addon_myphpplugin.php

Into my script I need to interact with a remote service through their REST API. I've tried cURL without success then I used easyapache interface to recompile apache with cURL enabled and still no way. I've been trying stream_context_create() with file_get_contents() no success, still no success with socket_create() too. I started thinking my plugin could be working in sandbox environment where all these functions are disabled. I have some success running curl with system() function and it's not a good practice I know...So can you help me understand if WHM developpers have integrated a way to handle HTTP POST/GET/PUT/DELETE requests...

My WHM environment:
WHM 11.30.5W
CENTOS 5.7 x86_64 vmware on cs009

Thank you

Stephane

 

I finally solved the issue by applying a re-complilation as suggested here http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/curl-php-apache-whm-161806.html