What are the advantages of CURL Library?

PHP supports libcurl, a library that allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many
different types of protocols.

LIBCURL (CURL LIBRARY PHP)currently supports the http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file, and ldap protocols.

LIBCURL (CURL LIBRARY PHP) also supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading (this can also be done with PHP’s ftp
extension), HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, and
user plus password authentication