Re: POST on redirects?

Adam Zey wrote: > function make_post($message) > { > $headers .= "POST /foo.php HTTP/1.1\r\n"; > $headers .= "Host: bar.com\r\n"; > $headers .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n"; > $headers .= "Connection: keep-alive\r\n"; > $headers .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($message) . "\r\n"; > $headers .= "\r\n"; > return $headers . $message; > } > > As far as I can tell, these are the absolute minimum set of > headers you can get away with for a POST transaction (If you > know how to use less, let me know, I use this in a situation > where overhead matters). Your Connection header is redundant, since that's the default value in HTTP/1.1. I would send the header but give it a value of close, since I see no good reason to leave the TCP connection open until it times out. That's a pretty big waste in a situation where overhead matters. Hope that helps. Chris -- Chris Shiflett Principal, OmniTI http://omniti.com/