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I'd assume it depends on what he wants to do. For example, I'd rather not use file_*_contents() for running a mirror of an archive that's like 5gb, which is what I'm doing with wget right now. You'd probably have to write some code to compare the modified dates on the files to save yourself the trouble of doing pointless tasks (getting the entire archive of files over again even though there were only a few modified files). Also, if they were large files I'm assuming that method would be really overkill.
In my opinion certain things are just better left to wget, and I'd recommend asking for it if it's one of those things.
BTW, while on the topic, does anyone know why it's not simply allowed by default? I'm just curious since I don't really see any security risks involved in allowing it as long you know what you're getting.
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