Re: POST without POSTing

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 00:41, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > > fsockopen() appears to be part of the standard network functions in PHP, > like the header() function. Do you mean that many hosts support the > function (as part of PHP) but don't support its use with external hosts? > Is there a way to determine this support from looking at phpinfo()? fsockopen() is a socket function, as the name suggests. Hosts can disable the usage of sockets. In fact, check Google and you'll see several folks complaining of their host having it disabled. As for fopen(), there's a php.ini value allow_url_fopen that a lot of hosts have set to 'no,' I'm sure with the intent to increase security.... but when you can still use cURL and exec('wget'), it kind of defeats the purpose. -- </Daniel P. Brown> daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ Check out our great hosting and dedicated server deals at http://twitter.com/pilotpig