It would be nice if ezhttptool:

• gained curl support in sendHTTPRequest()
• gained support for proxies even when curl is disabled
• gained support for NTML auth to proxies when using curl
• gained support for more ssl auth options when using curl
• was used as http 'engine' by soap client, rss feed import and everywhere else we do fopen at the moment
• was used during ezP setup, allowing user to set a proxy to be used to download packages
• merged code for sendHTTPRequest and getDataByURL

Not using fopen allows the ezuser to have llow_url_fopen off, which is considered good security practice (especially on all versions where it included remote includes!)