http and curl

[TheShaftUK]

Hi, i am trying to send data to a remote server using curl post. It is a webcam server that takes variables after the / like so

http://127.0.0.1/golive+44+3333+33

The variable above are not correct but similar. I can get these to the webcam server using using the following code but it doesnt print out the resposne from the server? What am i doing wrong? All the broadcaster reponds out is success=yes . I also need to check it if cannot connect and it outputs a response of success=no Any help would be great!

<?php
//
// A very simple example that gets a HTTP page.
//

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://i127.0.0.1//golive+44+3333+33");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec ($ch);
echo "$ch";
curl_close ($ch);

?>

Regards
Julian Chamberlain

[Weedpacket]

It sounds like maybe you ought get a bit more low-level; I don't know whether your camera uses the http protocol or not, but either way opening your own socket with fsockopen() and communicating directly might be less contorting than using cURL.

Once the socket's open (and fsockopen() will return FALSE if the camera doesn't respond), you have complete control over just what byte sequences you send to it, and can read in the raw whatever it sends back, without something like cURL massaging the data in either direction.