si necesitas CURL. para conectarte a los servicios web de hotmail. es algo asi.
Código PHP:
$ch = curl_init('https://'.$slogin);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Authorization: Passport1.4 OrgVerb=GET,OrgURL=http%3A%2F%2Fmessenger%2Emsn%2Ecom,sign-in='.$this->passport.',pwd='.$this->password.','.$auth_string,
'Host: login.passport.com'
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 2);
$header = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}