http POST

Greetings all, I need some help with HTTP transactions. I am opening a socket and using fputs to send a request to a URL. Like such: // try to connect to Web server $connection = fsockopen("www.somedomain.com", 80, &$error_number, &$error_description); // send transaction fputs($connection, "GET /test/testOAS?123\r\n"); fputs($connection, "\r\n"); this works fine. I attempted to simply change the method to a POST and send the data on another line but it ignores the data sent. // try to connect to Web server $connection = fsockopen("www.somedomain.com", 80, &$error_number, &$error_description); // send transaction fputs($connection, "POST /test/testOAS\r\n"); fputs($connection, "123\r\n"); fputs($connection, "\r\n"); This hit the URL but the data attached, "123", was ignored. What is the correct syntax for appending data to a post transaction. I have attemped to read the rfc from www.w3.org but I'm still having a hard time. Thanks, Pete Tamisin peter.tamisin@knowledgestorm.com