ACK! NEVER MIND!
I'm just blind. I didn't see the echo statement on the fgets() line.
Problem solved.
- Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: [PHP] How to avoid Socket Post output?
> 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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