Re: POST without POSTing

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:16:27 -0400 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:36:55PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 23:29, Paul M Foster > > <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > > > > > > I'm not sure how to do this. Please no exotic external libraries > > > my shared hosting provider doesn't include. RTFM will be fine; > > > just tell me which Fine Manual to Read. > > > > Nothing too exotic at all, Paul. Check out cURL: > > > > http://php.net/curl > > I was afraid you were going to say that, and I wasn't sure cURL was > supported on that server. But I just loaded phpinfo on that server, > and it is supported. > > However, assuming it *wasn't*, I've found the following example from a > google search (thank goodness for google's "hinting" or I couldn't > have found it): > > $fp = fsockopen("www.site.com", 80); > fputs($fp, "POST /script.php HTTP/1.0 > Host: www.site.com > Content-Length: 7 > > q=proxy"); > > I don't know much about doing things this way. It appears that when > done this way, the "body" must be separated by a newline, just like > email. And it appears that the content-length of 7 indicates the > length of the "q=proxy" string. Assuming I piled on a few other > passed variables the same way as "q", separated by newlines (and > adjusted the Content-Length accordingly), would the above work? Are > there liabilities to doing it this way? > > Paul > Not separated by newlines; separated by ampersands. But otherwise, that's just raw HTTP 1.1 protocol. cURL and other tools might look a bit more complicated at first, but (assuming they're available) they do shield you from the raw protocol a bit. No real liability to doing it that way other than it's a bit more work. http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/ttips/HTTPPost/ Regards, Torben