Posttohost function

[ljschrenk]

Hi!

I'm using a version of the post to host function. However, instead of just returning one line of data pipe delimited, it is returning a whole page full of garbage, starting with session ID etc.. Any suggestions for why it's not returning the right data?

If I manually go to the URL being passed I get the data string....so not sure what else I should try. Thanks for any help in advance.

lisa

function httpSimulateFormSubmit($host, $method, $path, $data) {
$buf = '';
$fp = fsockopen($host,80,$errno,$errstr,10);

if ($fp) {
if ($method == 'GET')
$path .= '?' . $data;
fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.0\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");

 if ($method == 'POST')
    fputs($fp, $data);
 while (!feof($fp))
    $buf .= fgets($fp, 1024);
 fclose($fp);
 return $buf;

}
else{
echo "$errno - $errstr <p>";
return false;
}
}

Here's a sample of the output:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=A7ABBA7D0F9682C74D74E5DC3BF155FD; Path=/ Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 48844 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 01:26:52 GMT Server: Apache Coyote/1.0 Connection: close GIF87avÂÆ1gU(¬ðÜp(ôô\K£¤ð{ä½9Þ%¨÷ÀœÃ¥Àž{"85ˆ)©ØÇ`VáìcZ_RÑ-%Ⴈ‡_æd²8—2s½Cd’“鈔§Í øi$ø˜×Ĉ ¢¦H۝°