Problem with fsockopen or fputs

[kimby]

Hi,

I know this is a naive question, but I can't seem to solve it on my own, so thanks in advance.

I need to send a secure request to a remote server. To do this, I establish a connection like this one:

$myServer = "www2.foo.edu";
$myPort = 443;
$myTimeOut = 60;

$my_handle = fsockopen($myServer, $myPort, $errno, $errstr, $myTimeOut);

Now, assuming the connection is good, I need to go to a new directory on the remote server, go to an asp page, and pass in a bunch of parameters. This is more or less what this looks like:

$my_string= "/somewhere/something.asp?parm_1=123456&parm2=ABC

And my fputs statement looks like this:

fputs($my_handle,"GET /$my_string HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");

This does not seem to be working. Any help greatly appreciated!

[[deleted]]

443 is HTTPS, which is encrypted, so you need to send encrypted data over that connection....that may be more difficult than you think.

[kimby]

Does it make any difference that I have been able to get the command to work if I just type it directly into the browser? I realize these are naive questions- still on the low end of the learning curve 🙂

[[deleted]]

did you run the command from the commandline using PHP?

[Anon]

Hi,

In fact according to what I understand, it shouldn't make any difference (regarding the processes).

I have been using a code to make GET query on a script on a distant server.

When I use a simple HTML form, it works perfectly.
But when I use fsockopen, it just doesn't connect the server!

"Connection Timeout"

If we look at the socket functioning level, can the server recognize the difference between a GET query from an HTML form and a fsockopen query using GET?????

Please if someone knows ANYTHING about this just tell it to me!

Thanks a lot.