Launching a URL

[Franco Fellico']

When I am executing a PHP routine, I would like to start a page on
a server. Could be also interesting to receive back the answer so
I can use it contents in my program.

In other words as a sample when I am at some point of execution of
a my PHP routine I would like to send to the network:

http://www.someserver.com/somefunction.php?&user=$auser

Eventually I would like to receive in some way the answer page from
the server.

It's possible to do this?

Thank you from Franco in Italy

[Jedi121]

Franco Fellico' a écrit le 26/03/2004 :

In other words as a sample when I am at some point of execution of
a my PHP routine I would like to send to the network:

http://www.someserver.com/somefunction.php?&user=$auser

Eventually I would like to receive in some way the answer page from
the server.

Use fopen() : http://www.php.net/fopen
Or fsockopen() : http://www.php.net/fsockopen

[Pedro Graca]

Jedi121 wrote:

Franco Fellico' a écrit le 26/03/2004 :

In other words as a sample when I am at some point of execution of
a my PHP routine I would like to send to the network:

http://www.someserver.com/somefunction.php?&user=$auser

Eventually I would like to receive in some way the answer page from
the server.

Use fopen() : http://www.php.net/fopen
Or fsockopen() : http://www.php.net/fsockopen

Or curl_*() : http://www.php.net/curl
if you need to control User_agent strings, cookies, post, ...

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Franco Fellico' a écrit le 26/03/2004 :

In other words as a sample when I am at some point of execution of
a my PHP routine I would like to send to the network:

http://www.someserver.com/somefunction.php?&user=$auser

Eventually I would like to receive in some way the answer page from
the server.

Use fopen() : http://www.php.net/fopen
Or fsockopen() : http://www.php.net/fsockopen

file_get_contents() is underappreciated imho.

If the server does browser check, you can pretend to be IE or Netscape by
setting the user agent string:

ini_set('user_agent', "MSIE 6.0");