I've always used cURL for this sort of stuff, but this article got me thinking I could request another page easily using the Request object in Kohana 3.

    $url = 'http://www.example.com';

    $update = Request::factory($url);

    $update->method = 'POST';

    $update->post = array(
        'key' => 'value'
    );  

    $update->execute();
    echo $update->response;

However I get the error

Accessing static property Request::$method as non static

From this I can assume it means that the method method is static, but that doesn't help me much. I also copied and pasted the example from that article and it threw the same error.

Basically, I'm trying to POST to a new page on an external server, and do it the Kohana way.

So, am I doing this correctly, or should I just use cURL (or file_get_contents() with context)?