note 91554 modified in function.fsockopen by danbrown

look at this smart ssl/http fsockopen function as a good solution for dealing with things <?php function _get($type,$host,$port='80',$path='/',$data='') { $_err = 'lib sockets::'.__FUNCTION__.'(): '; switch($type) { case 'http': $type = ''; case 'ssl': continue; default: die($_err.'bad $type'); } if(!ctype_digit($port)) die($_err.'bad port'); if(!empty($data)) foreach($data AS $k => $v) $str .= urlencode($k).'='.urlencode($v).'&'; $str = substr($str,0,-1); $fp = fsockopen($host,$port,$errno,$errstr,$timeout=30); if(!$fp) die($_err.$errstr.$errno); else { fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($str)."\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n"); fputs($fp, $str."\r\n\r\n"); while(!feof($fp)) $d .= fgets($fp,4096); fclose($fp); } return $d; } ?> --was-- look at this smart ssl/http fsockopen function as a good solution for dealing with things [code]function _get($type,$host,$port='80',$path='/',$data='') { $_err = 'lib sockets::'.__FUNCTION__.'(): '; switch($type) { case 'http': $type = ''; case 'ssl': continue; default: die($_err.'bad $type'); } if(!ctype_digit($port)) die($_err.'bad port'); if(!empty($data)) foreach($data AS $k => $v) $str .= urlencode($k).'='.urlencode($v).'&'; $str = substr($str,0,-1); $fp = fsockopen($host,$port,$errno,$errstr,$timeout=30); if(!$fp) die($_err.$errstr.$errno); else { fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($str)."\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n"); fputs($fp, $str."\r\n\r\n"); while(!feof($fp)) $d .= fgets($fp,4096); fclose($fp); } return $d; }[/code] http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php