Simulating POST?

Anon

Is there any way to request a page from a POSTed form?

eg. instead of using fopen on http://mysite.com/somepage.php?name=dan&somevar=someval

Is there a way to POST it to the form? (must be done via a script, and not someone actually opening a page).

Anon

a bad hack would be to create the form with hidden values in a hidden frame and then make javascript submit it...

kparker

Sure, just use fsockopen() to open a connection to a server, POST to a given url, and send the headers and data you want. Then, if it matters, read back the response. Finally, close the socket.

Anon

Eh?

Could you post an example? eg. posting some variables to a mock url.

Thanks,

Danny

Anon

This is a function I found in the archives.
I suggest you look up the cURL extension in the manual aswell. Far better then this function...

function PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send)
{
$fp = fsockopen($host,80);
fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($data_to_send)."\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");
fputs($fp, $data_to_send);

    // Print the page with the values you sent....
    //while(!feof($fp))
//{
//	echo fgets($fp, 128);
//}
fclose($fp);

}

PostToHost("domain.com","/path/page.htm","name=myname");

// Tobias Talltorp

Anon

Thanks!

Just another quicker, the stuff you send (POST, Host, Content-type, Content length etc.) how would I do a referer? Is there anywhere that has a list of all valid headers I can send?

Thanks,

Danny

Anon

I'm not really sure what the correct header for the referer is, but I know that curl can do this easily for you.

Check it out:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

Or the original:
http://curl.haxx.se

If you find the header (or the list you requested), please let me know...

// Tobias

Anon

Referer: http://www.website.com/path/to/referer/page.php