Http Post

obhobh

Does anyone of u out there know how can I read the response from a HTTP Post with PHP?? It's a XML Document. I try to print it on the screen but it seems like all those http headers return are making it impossible to show the XML docs.

Weedpacket

Could do with some more detail: how are you trying to read the response (it ought to be the same as reading any other http response)? The fact that it's the result of a POST or the fact that it's an XML document shouldn't make that much difference.

If what you've got is the entire http response, headers and all, then the obvious thing to do would be to strip the header block off (everything up to and including the first blank line); what's left would be the XML document.

obhobh

I used the fsockopen command to open a connection to the server and post an XML doc to the server. In return, I used the fgets() command to get the response. This is a bit of my code that I think might be useful.
<?php
$xml="some XML Document";
$fp = fsockopen ("someserver.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
// HTTP ERROR
echo "$errstr ($errno)";
} else {
fputs ($fp, $header . $xml);
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp,1024); //to print the XML doc on the screen
}
fclose ($fp);
?>

I am getting all the http headers and I think they are prohibiting me from displaying the XML doc on the screen. How actually do I strip the header off? Any commands?? By the way, this is the first time I do a HTTP Post. IN normal circumstances, how do I actually retrieve the reponse??