question writting to http

sahammondsr

In PHP its quite easy to read a remote web page using the fopen("http://www.remotedomain.com/", 'r'); syntax and frequently you can complete a form using:

$fh = fopen("http://www.remotedomain.com/form.php?key=$value", 'r');

However, I'm up against an attempt where the information MUST be sent via POST rather then GET. Obviously, fopen is doing a GET request behind the scenes.

Does anyone have a working example (code) of completing a form on a remote server via POST?

Any samples/help would be appreciated.

Scott

suntra

I don't have any example, but you'll do that with sockets... you have to know the Http and Post protocols... see fsockopen() on PHP.net.

acidbox

i guess I am trying to do the same thing as you. A definitive answer would help me a lot too!

Weedpacket

Yep; fsockopen() and writing an http POST request to it would do the job (See the obvious places for find out how fsockopen() works and what an http POST request is like). Or if you've got the cURL functions installed, or can install them, you can use those instead.

acidbox

When I try to use the fsockopen, I always return a 0. On php.net, it says a 0 means that it failed to initialize the socket and that it didn't even try to connect. Is there some way to initialize a socket? Or, what am I doing wrong? I just used the exact example they had on php.net except I changed the URL to one that I know works.