fsockopen and POST request

[Anon]

Hello,

When I do a POST request with fsockopen and print the output to the screen, the following text is always added automatically:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:39:43 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.3pl1
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

-->The actual content begins here<--

Is there any way to suppress the output of these headers?

The code I use is:

$request = "var=test";

$header = "POST /test2.php HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= "Content-length: " . strlen($request) . "\r\n\r\n";

$fp = fsockopen('www.myserver.com', 80, &$err_num, &$err_msg, 30));

fputs($fp, "$header . $request");

while (!feof($fp)) echo fgets($fp, 128);

[Anon]

Those are the client headers being returned by the request through the fsockopen. You should try the following at the end:

while (!feof($fp)) $buffer.= fgets($fp, 1024);

fclose($fp);

$pos = strpos("\r\n\r\n", $buffer);
$buffer = substr($buffer, $pos + 2);

echo $buffer;

This will find the first occurence of two line breaks (which denotes the end of the headers from the server) and then removes them from the buffer before you output it. Hope that helps.

Chris King