sockets and GET

drewmanji

i'm using GET to send some parameters to another server. i'm attempting to open the socket, send the GET /program_name?NAME=value&NAME2=value2 etc, wait for a byte confirmation, echo a success stmt, and then close the socket. i'm able to open the socket, but i'm having problems with the program that should read in one of the params, make sure it's defined and then echo a "1" or "0". i hope this is enough info. thanks in advance for any help.

drew

kparker

What specific problems are you having? You don't say whether the remote side ever gets executed, for example. You should be able to first verify that the other server does what you want, just by typing

http://host.name.com/program.php?name=value etc

into your browser, and see what the host returns.

drewmanji

thanks for the reply.
the remote side seems to work fine. i think my problem lies in try to read its output of "1" or "0"

drew

kparker

What happens to the data you read from the socket, then? Just put it in a loop and echo it to the output. It may help, in such a case, if you have the standalone version of php so you can echo the output right to your screen rather than through the browser.