php socket question

[Sticks]

hello

i want to be able to send a packet to a http server and receive the
response, but i'm not quite sure how to do it. i thought of using
sockets, and although i have worked out how to send data to the http
server, i have no idea how to receive the responses.

any help wuld be greatly appreciated.

this is what i've got so far. i know that the server is receiving the
data because i have employed this technique before, only previously i
did not need to receive the response.

<?php

function login()
{
$data = "POST /admin/default.asp HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$data .= etc etc etc

$socket = socket_create(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,SOL_TCP);
$connection = socket_connect($socket,'(*IP ADDRESS*)','80');

socket_write($socket,$data);
socket_close($socket);
}

login();

?>

[Zurab Davitiani]

Sticks wrote:

<?php

function login()
{
$data = "POST /admin/default.asp HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$data .= etc etc etc

$socket = socket_create(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,SOL_TCP);
$connection = socket_connect($socket,'(*IP ADDRESS*)','80');

socket_write($socket,$data);
socket_close($socket);
}

login();

?>

Avoid using HTTP 1.1 - in my experience, PHP4 doesn't handle the chunked
transfer encoding very well. I don't know if they have sorted this out in
later versions though. The examples you are looking for are here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php

[sinan]

Take a look at the php manual item about fsockopen() at www.php.net .
There are examples too.

[Chung Leong]

"Sticks" <ba***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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hello

i want to be able to send a packet to a http server and receive the
response, but i'm not quite sure how to do it. i thought of using
sockets, and although i have worked out how to send data to the http
server, i have no idea how to receive the responses.

any help wuld be greatly appreciated.

this is what i've got so far. i know that the server is receiving the
data because i have employed this technique before, only previously i
did not need to receive the response.

See http://www.php.net/stream_context_create
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