Http Request

[vegaanders]

Hi!
Can someone show me how to solve the following

I want to use a form where someone put in there phone number. When you submit the for the following url should be executed
http://<YOUR SERVER
IP>/mor/functions/callback_from_url?acc=<DEVICE_ID>&src=<SOURCE>&dst=<DESTINATION>&secret=<DEVICE_SECRET>

All exept Destination should be static. Destination is picked up from form

Anyone who can help a total newbi

Thanks in advance

[MarkR]

You say "executed", do you mean that your server should do a http GET request?

You can achieve this using the fopen wrappers, for example using file_get_contents or fopen, and providing the URL instead of a filename.

You can read the response (to make sure it worked) and read any additional headers through stream_get_meta_data

Mark

[suntra]

If you want (and are "brave"), you can use sockets :
http://ca.php.net/fsockopen

[MarkR]

If you are sensible, you won't use the sockets directly, instead preferring someone else to write a HTTP implementation.

There have been countless posts from people who complain that their custom HTTP implementation is broken (which it typically is, because they don't understand HTTP properly).

Don't write your own HTTP implementation, use PHP's.

Mark