note 36703 added to function.fsockopen

Improved HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer-encoding example. The sample code given below by Jack does not function correctly when run against a recent version of Apache (I'm assuming that this did once work, but from the HTTP/1.1 spec I can only assume if it did work it was based mostly on luck). <?php $header = ""; $response = ""; // connect if (!($request=fsockopen('whatever.com',80,$errno,$errstr))) exit($errstr); else { socket_set_timeout($request,10); // send request fwrite($request,$post); // get header do $header.=fread($request,1); while (!preg_match('/\\r\\n\\r\\n$/',$header)); // check for chunked encoding if (preg_match('/Transfer\\-Encoding:\\s+chunked\\r\\n/',$header)) do { $byte = ""; $chunk_size=""; do { $chunk_size.=$byte; $byte=fread($request,1); } while ($byte!="\\r"); // till we match the CR fread($request, 1); // also drop off the LF $chunk_size=hexdec($chunk_size); // convert to real number $response.=fread($request,$chunk_size); fread($request,2); // ditch the CRLF that trails the chunk } while ($chunk_size); // till we reach the 0 length chunk (end marker) else { // check for specified content length if (preg_match('/Content\\-Length:\\s+([0-9]*)\\r\\n/',$header,$matches)) { $response=fread($request,$matches[1]); } else { // not a nice way to do it (may also result in extra CRLF which trails the real content???) while (!feof($request)) $response .= fread($request, 4096); } } // close connection fclose($request); } // do something useful with the response print($header); print($response); ?> Richard. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+36703 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+36703&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+36703&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php