Re: Problem submitting a POST request "by hand"

The problem is that the URL which I posted to doesn't display in a browser again. I want to do the following: 1) www.someserver.com/feedback.phtml sends the user-entered form data to www.someserver.com/mailer.php 2) www.someserver.com/mailer.php (the example below) checks these data and submits resulting parameter list via POST method back to www.someserver.com/feedback.phtml and loads it again 3) www.someserver.com/feedback.phtml displays again in a browser according to received POST parameters... PROBLEM: www.someserver.com/feedback.phtml doesn't load again (a blank page is displayed). I discovered by accidant that if I add the echo $c; line then the page loades but the &c value's string is seen on the top. How can I get the www.someserver.com/feedback.phtml loaded again without this trick? Vallo Jochem Maas wrote:

Vallo Reima wrote:

Hello! I send the parameters from one php script to another via POST method. The solution works (see example below) but the receiver page loads ONLY if I include the echo $c; command after send_host (see PROBLEM!!! line).

AFAICS $c contains the response output of the URL which you POSTed to using fputs() - which is the return value of send_host(), so unless you echo the contents of $c (assuming you are not outputting anything else) you will not see the output returned when you do a POST request to the URL passed to the send_host() function ... I might be missing the point completely, but what exactly is the problem? you seem to do a POST hit on a url get some output returned and then display this as if it were your own page... and that seems to be what you want it to do...? rgds & not-quite-seeing-the-problem, Jochem

Otherwise a blank page loads without any error messages. The problem is same with Microsoft-IIS/5.1-PHP/5.0.3 and Apache/2.0.51-PHP/4.3.10... What can I do to get rid of this? Thanks! Vallo function send_host($host,$path,$query,$others=''){

    $d="POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $host\r\nContent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n${others}User-Agent: Mozilla 4.0\r\nContent-length: ".strlen($query)."\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n$query";
    if (!$h = fsockopen($host,80)) {
        return -1;
    }
    else {
        stream_set_timeout($h,10);
    }
    if (fputs($h,$d) === FALSE) {
        return -2;
        }       else {
        $r = '';
            while(!feof($h)) {
               $r .= fgets($h, 128);
        }
    }
    if (fclose($h) === FALSE) {
        return -3;
        }
    else {
        return $r;
    }

} /* ... */ $c = send_host("$host_name","$redirect","$par"); if ($c < 0) { echo "<B>ERROR $c</B>"; } else { echo $c; /* PROBLEM!!! */ }