GetToHost

[Han]

I present to you GetToHost, companion function to PostToHost (found
elsewhere.)

Usage: $html =
GetToHost("http://www.example.com?param1=string1&param2=string2");

Returns the full request in a string, headers and all, ready for your
parsing pleasure.

This is a modification and consolidation of other examples, but hopefully
this will save some people time. Note the host header, which satisfies HTTP
1.1 server requirements.

Season to taste.

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function GetToHost($link) {
$http_response = "";
$url = parse_url($link);
$fp = fsockopen($url[host], 80, $err_num, $err_msg, 30) or
die("Socket-open failed--error: ".$err_num." ".$err_msg);
fputs($fp, "GET $url[path]?$url[query] HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: host.org\r\n\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: Close\r\n");
while(!feof($fp)) {
$http_response .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
return $http_response;
}