diff --git a/docs/examples/getpageinvar.php b/docs/examples/getpageinvar.php
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index c8d5c4987..000000000
--- a/docs/examples/getpageinvar.php
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@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#
-# The PHP curl module supports the received page to be returned in a variable
-# if told.
-#
-$ch = curl_init();
-
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.myurl.com/");
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
-$result=curl_exec ($ch);
-curl_close ($ch);
diff --git a/docs/examples/simpleget.php b/docs/examples/simpleget.php
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index 17c1757bf..000000000
--- a/docs/examples/simpleget.php
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@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#
-# A very simple example that gets a HTTP page.
-#
-
-$ch = curl_init();
-
-curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.zend.com/");
-curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
-
-curl_exec ($ch);
-
-curl_close ($ch);
-
diff --git a/docs/examples/simplepost.php b/docs/examples/simplepost.php
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index dc4eadf5a..000000000
--- a/docs/examples/simplepost.php
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#
-# A very simple PHP example that sends a HTTP POST to a remote site
-#
-
-$ch = curl_init();
-
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.mysite.com/tester.phtml");
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "postvar1=value1&postvar2=value2&postvar3=value3");
-
-curl_exec ($ch);
-curl_close ($ch);