best way to use dos curl? or???

I need to bring back results from a php file using curl?
I know there are plugins that are for downloading and such, but all I want to do is to bring the results from a php query into a variable to be used...

I also need https (ssl)...

any suggestions?

Using a plug-in such as InetLoad/InetC would be simpler than executing curl.

Thank you, i'll try and work with that plugin right now...