TwitterOAuth::http PHP Method

    function http($url, $method, $postfields = NULL)
    {
        $this->http_info = array();
        $ci = curl_init();
        /* Curl settings */
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $this->useragent);
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $this->connecttimeout);
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $this->timeout);
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, $this->ssl_verifypeer);
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, array($this, 'getHeader'));
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
        switch ($method) {
            case 'POST':
                curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
                if (!empty($postfields)) {
                    curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
                }
                break;
            case 'DELETE':
                curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');
                if (!empty($postfields)) {
                    $url = "{$url}?{$postfields}";
                }
        }
        curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        $response = curl_exec($ci);
        $this->http_code = curl_getinfo($ci, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
        $this->http_info = array_merge($this->http_info, curl_getinfo($ci));
        $this->url = $url;
        curl_close($ci);
        return $response;
    }

 public function testSearchResults()
 {
     global $THINKUP_CFG;
     $to = new TwitterOAuth('', '', '', '');
     $twitter_data = $to->http('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%40whitehouse&result_type=recent');
     $api = new CrawlerTwitterAPIAccessorOAuth('111', '222', 1234, 1234, $this->getTestInstance(), 3200);
     $results = $api->parseJSON($twitter_data);
     //print_r($results);
     $this->assertEqual($results[0]['post_id'], 11837318124);
 }