Re: Faking a form POST

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 09:36 PM, .ben wrote:

Hi. Does anyone know how to POST data to another script as if a form had done so? I want to POST some data to a script on another site and retrieve the data that is returned so i can poick it apart, i did it in ASP using a 3rd party component... just wondering if the same could be done in PHP. Any help appreciated.

This function will look a lot prettier once you've copied it into a text editor that can handle > 80 columns -- or you can remove the comments. From the archives: # =============================================================== # PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send) # --------------------------------------------------------------- # "It is a trivial little function." # -Rasmus # =============================================================== function PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send) { $fp = fsockopen($host,80); // $fp now points to the "file" opened by fsockopen fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.0\n"); // write the first header, with the path and the protocol (annotations suggest using 1.0 over 1.1) fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n"); // write the hostname line of the header fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"); // write the encoding type line of the header fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data_to_send) . "\n"); // write the content-length of data to send fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n"); // close the connection, and a blank line fputs($fp, $data_to_send); // write the data to send (in POST variable form) while(!feof($fp)) { // until the end of the "file", eat 128 bytes at a time echo fgets($fp, 128); } fclose($fp); // close the "file" } ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com