sending an http request with php

[jdonnell]

How can I send an http request with php that is similar to the
following? Notice the raw (unnamed) post data.


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 01:31:10 GMT
Status: 200 OK
Connection: Close
Content-Length: 510
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<myXml>
.... a bunch of xml here ...
</myXml>

[Sjoerd]

Re: sending an http request with php

What you specify is a HTTP response. A HTTP request would start with:
POST /foo.html HTTP/1.1.

To do such a request, open a socket using fsockopen and fwrite the
request to it. Alternatively, you may use Curl
(http://www.php.net/curl) to do a request with specified POST data.

To make a response such as that you have written, you can just use
echo() and header() to get what you want.

[jdonnell]

Re: sending an http request with php

Thanks, that's what i was looking for.

p.s. - i copied the wrong http into the message (response instead of a
request) :(