HTTP GET + php socket problem

Oni

I've created a raw socket and am sending headers in the correct format, as far as I know.

The problem I have is that for some types of webpages, I recieve a 302 (Temporarily moved, I believe) error from the other server.

This has happened when the link is something like: archive.php/foo/bar/index.html

GET /archive.php/foo/bar/index.html HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Host: www.example.com
Referer: 
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: none
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection: close

Note: I'm using raw sockets as I use the stream_select() function. (fork-like behavior for http requests)

Also, I use "\r\n" for new lines and "\r\n\r\n" for the end of the header.

Weedpacket

Yes; when you receive a redirect response, the idea is to make a new request for the URL you're being redirected to (it's given in the response's Location: header.)

Oni

Yes but the Location points to the main page of the site.

If a web browser encountered the same error and redirected, I wouldn't see the site I'm supposed to.

Oni

Finally I was able to fix the problem.

Cause: To connect (using stream_socket_client) I would always connect in the form "example.com", rather than "www.example.com" even if that was the way it was indexed. I was able to contact the correct server without the www. in some cases; however, I would be forwarded to the main page. While opening the socket, use www. just in case.

I believe the cause of this problem is error in configuration.

Weedpacket

No; it's an error in understanding. There is nothing magical about the use of "www" in domain names: "www.example.com" and "example.com" are different domain names that might resolve to the same address but don't have to. Compare nasa.gov with www.nasa.gov, jpl.nasa.gov, and gsfc.nasa.gov.