RE: [PHP-DB] Re: the body of the response

"are you saying that i can grab the output of your echo() statements in YOUR PHP script by Fopen()ing your URL in MY script and then Fread()ing that resulting file pointer?" --Yes! That's -exactly- what I've been trying to explain. :) That's the -best- way I can think of retrieving the info from a remote database, unless you allowed remote access directly to the database, which could be a security issue. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:mrsql.php@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 5:37 PM To: cczona@nospam.invalid; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re: the body of the response thanks CC, are you saying that i can grab the output of your echo() statements in YOUR PHP script by Fopen()ing your URL in MY script and then Fread()ing that resulting file pointer? IF so,, is this done much? or are there easier more stable less error-prone ways to access remote databases? Suppose I had a MUSIC database that you wanted your site visitors to be able to query,and it was OK with me because you had a MOVIE database that i wanted MY site visitors to be able to query, would we set it up this way? ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "CC Zona" <cczona@nospam.invalid> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 2:16 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] 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 > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net