Re: Re: POST without form

Thanks to everyone for their help so far. Just a few more questions. What will I need to do to make this simple post method (shown below written by Andrus) work with SSL? Do I just change the port number and protocol? Will I have to use cURL? If I do then how can I tell if my host supports cURL? Will it always show up somewhere in PHPInfo? I am trying to get PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) to work with PHP. I have done a lot of searching and a lot of people are trying to do the same thing. I just haven't seen a straight answer yet. I have the PERL and ASP/VBScript samples but no PHP. (Let me know if you want to see the sample code. Thanks again for your help. You guys are great. "Reductor" <sjdtmv@tpg.com.au> wrote in message news:00d801c152ee$7e1fec80$eb00a8c0@mum... > you must put to newlines(\n\n) at the end of it all > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "_lallous" <elias_bachaalany@yahoo.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 5:59 PM > Subject: [PHP] Re: POST without form > > > > // simple post method > > // version 1.0 by Andrus (andrus@vnet.ee) > > > > // Disclaimer: > > // everyone can change or use this code however and wherever they want ;) > > > > > > > > // send out "browser" headers > > function send_headers ($fp) { > > fputs ($fp, "Accept: */*\n"); > > fputs ($fp, "Accept-Language: en\n"); > > fputs ($fp, "Connection: Keep-Alive\n"); > > fputs ($fp, "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows > > 98)\n"); > > } > > > > // post data and return reply > > function post_data ($host, $url, $data) { > > $fp = @fsockopen ($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 120); > > $ret = ""; > > if (strncasecmp ($url, > > "http://", 7) == 0) $url = substr > > ($url, 7); > > $p = strpos ($url, '/'); > > if (empty ($p)) { > > $req = "/"; > > } else { > > $req = substr ($url, $p); > > } > > if ($fp) { > > fputs ($fp, "POST $req HTTP/1.0\n"); > > send_headers ($fp); > > fputs ($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"); > > $out = ""; > > while (list ($k, $v) = each ($data)) { > > if(strlen($out) != 0) $out .= "&"; > > $out .= rawurlencode($k). "=" .rawurlencode($v); > > } > > $out = trim ($out); > > fputs ($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($out)."\n\n"); > > fputs ($fp, "$out"); > > fputs ($fp, "\n"); > > while(!feof($fp)){ > > $ret .= fgets($fp,128); > > } > > fclose ($fp); > > } > > return $ret; > > } > > // example how to use: > > > > // following code will post variables "login" and "pass" to server > > "www.something.com" script "/submit.php" > > $reply = post_data ("www.something.com", "/submit.php", array > > ("login" => > > $username, "pass" => $password)); > > > > > > "Daniel Dickey" <daniel_dickey@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:20011011160148.24821.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > > How do I send a POST without using a form? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >