Re: the body of the response

In article <008101c10e0f$379207e0$c844500c@zeospantera>, mrsql.php@worldnet.att.net (Ken Sommers) wrote: > PHP manual says: > fopen > fopen -- Opens file or URL > Description > int fopen (string filename, string mode [, int use_include_path]) > > If filename begins with "http://" (not case > sensitive), an HTTP 1.0 > connection is opened to the specified server, the page is requested using > the HTTP GET method, and a file pointer is returned to the beginning of the > body of the response. > -------- > can someone explain the clause: > > "and a file pointer is returned to the beginning of the > body of the response." > > can someone explain and describe what this "body" is? Presumably that's what RFC 2616 refers to as the "message body", the part of the response that follows the headers. Translated: what you get with fopen() is what you'd get by fetching the same URL with a browser and then viewing source. BTW, fsockopen() can be used to get both headers ("Content-type", "Content-length", "Expires", "Location", etc.) and body ("<HTML>....</HTML>" or whatever). -- CC