Function to POST a URL??

thepez

I'm looking for a function similar to Microsoft's URL Control which allows you to post a URL via HTTPS. Its for credit card processing.

***** THIS IS THE DATA I WANT TO SEND ****

POST /realtime.test.firepay.com HTTP/1.0<CR><LF>
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded<CR><LF>
Content-length: 91<CR><LF>
<CR><LF>
account=blah&amount=1000

*********** END OF DATA ***************

INSTRUCTIONS THEY GAVE *

To submit this request, the merchant application then opens an SSL pro-tected socket connection to FirePay and sends the request data. Any tool that creates and submits a standard HTTP Post using SSL could be employed. One example is the Microsoft URL Control, which allows Decoding responses you to set the data to be posted and then to do a secure POST of that
data.

Any help would be much appreciated!

frigidman

Look into "curl" support for PHP. Your php may not be compiled for it, so you may have to recompile php (or reinstall a RPM that does it for you? doubt one exists).

Curl lets you do all that really easily. Check php.net for more information on "curl":

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

thepez

Actually I did look into CURL and if your a rocket scientist you might be able to figure out a pinch of what they are trying to say in the manual and the examples on their site. There are no examples that have an HTTPS post, PLEASE, does anyone have one? I'm sure I'm not the only one that has built a PHP e-com site.

Thanks.

BDKR

I think fsockopen() should do it. Remeber, the manual is your freind.🙂

Also, check out this link.

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/12039/fid/51

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
BDKR

frigidman

Here is a cut from doing an HTTPS post to a credit card authorization server like authorize.net. They REQUIRE you to do a sercure connection.

//set some post arg data:
$postargs  = "x_ADC_Delim_Data=TRUE&";
$postargs .= "x_ADC_URL=FALSE&";
$postargs .= "x_Test_Request=FALSE&";
$postargs .= "x_Login=BLAHBLAH&";
$postargs .= "x_Password=BLAHBLAH&";
//...etc

//do the jiggy with it:
$curlit = curl_init("https://authorize.server/auth.app");
curl_setopt($curlit, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curlit, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postargs);
curl_setopt($curlit, CURLOPT_REFERER, "https://your.server/");
curl_setopt($curlit, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$returnstuff = curl_exec($curlit);
curl_close($curlit);

//deal with the return:
echo $returnstuff;