Hello list,
I'm attempting to use the PostToHost() function to send a request to a
remote script. The purpose for this is to request and retrieve information
from a remote database without the need for messy HTTP & HTML methods. I
realize that I could use an HTML form, put the data in hidden fields, and
send the request that way, but then I would have to redirect back from the
master script recording an unwanted page in the 'Back Button' history. I'd
like to avoid that so I'm investigating methods of POST'ing through a manual
socket connection.
Here is that PostToHost() function..
/*********************************************************
PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send)
$host; valid domain (ie. www.domain.com)
$path; relative URL (ie. /myfile.php)
$data_to_send; urlencoded key/val string (ie.
"key=val&key2=val2&key3=val3")
*********************************************************/
function PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send)
{
ob_end_flush();
$fp = fsockopen($host,80);
fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.0\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data_to_send) . "\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");
fputs($fp, $data_to_send);
while(!feof($fp))
{
echo fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
}
It works great! The only problem is I get output from the socket connection
and I don't know how to skip over it...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:10:36 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) ApacheJServ/1.1.2 PHP/4.2.3
FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 Rewrit/1.1a
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
I'm very much a newbie to all of this so you'll have to forgive me. But I'm
wondering if there is anyway to avoid this output and have a completely
invisible manual socket POST?
Thanks,
Kevin Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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