Re: Faking a form POST

Check out the php docs for curl: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php Maybe it's more of what you need. I use it with paypay autopay and such. "Steve Dix" <steve@stevedix.de> wrote in message news:3CBC2652.2995.4CD93C@localhost... > On 16 Apr 2002 at 12:22, .ben wrote: > > > hmm, i was kinda after an in-process component like the ASP components > > ASPHTTP (http://www.ServerObjects.com) and ASPTear > > (http://www.alphasieraapapa.com). > > > > cheers tho, > > > > .b > > > > Try this : > > You will have to encode your data in a similar manner to a get > method, only without using the ? ie > > to send hello = 1, mouse=brown > > &hello=1&mouse=brown > > in $data_to_send > > <? > function PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send) > { > $fp = fsockopen($host,80); > fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\n"); > fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n"); > fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"); > fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($data_to_send)."\n"); > fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n"); > fputs($fp, $data_to_send); > while(!feof($fp)) > { > echo fgets($fp, 128); > } > fclose($fp); > } > > ?> > Steve Dix>==============================<steve@stevedix.de > http://www.stevedix.de/ > http://www.snorty.net/ > http://www.mp3.com/simpletons > http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/2706 >