How to get remote webpage content with drupal http request? Would love to see some examples on getting remote webpage content with drupal http request. I have plenty of examples easily with Google with curl, but yet to find one with this drupal function.

Also, would CURL be better for getting remote content?
First, you can read the documentation about drupal_http_request() its pretty well documented and it will help you.

But for simple application, you can just do it like that. 

&lt;?php
$result = drupal_http_request('http://google.com/');
if (in_array( $result-&gt;code, array(200, 304))) {
  // Use $result-&gt;data for the content
}
else {
  // Error $result-&gt;code
}

// Also you can see all content from $result with
// if you had installed Devel Module and enable it
// dsm($result)
// or simply like that drupal_set_message('&lt;pre&gt;' . print_r($result, 1) . '&lt;/pre&gt;');