On Jun 12, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Miretsky, Anya wrote:
I am trying to retrieve and send data to a remote web server using
HTTP. [...] Can anyone point me in the right direction?
There are a few ways to do it...
For simple GET requests the easiest is to use file functions that
support the HTTP protocol, like fopen() or file(). (The php.ini
setting allow_url_fopen must be enabled for this to work). EX:
$responseLines = file('http://google.com/');
more details: http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php
For POST request you'll need to use either the curl, or socket
functions.
http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php
PEAR also has an HTTP_Request package. This uses the socket functions
internally, but is much simpler to work with.
http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request
Hope this helps.
-- Dell
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