how does one send a large string as a POST to another web page?

[lawrence k]

If I've a big string and I want to send it to another web page as a GET
request, I just use file(). I've done this often.

But what command do I use when I want to send the same string as a POST
request?

[ZeldorBlat]

Re: how does one send a large string as a POST to another web page?


lawrence k wrote:[color=blue]
> If I've a big string and I want to send it to another web page as a GET
> request, I just use file(). I've done this often.
>
> But what command do I use when I want to send the same string as a POST
> request?[/color]

<http://www.php.net/curl>

[Chung Leong]

Re: how does one send a large string as a POST to another web page?


lawrence k wrote:[color=blue]
> If I've a big string and I want to send it to another web page as a GET
> request, I just use file(). I've done this often.
>
> But what command do I use when I want to send the same string as a POST
> request?[/color]

See http://fi.php.net/stream-context-create/.

[NC]

Re: how does one send a large string as a POST to another web page?

lawrence k wrote:[color=blue]
>
> If I've a big string and I want to send it to another web page as a
> GET request, I just use file(). I've done this often.
>
> But what command do I use when I want to send the same string
> as a POST request?[/color]

You just send a POST request:

$content = '';
$flag = false;
$post_query = 'a=1&b=2'; // name-value pairs
$post_query = urlencode($post _query) . "\r\n";
$host = 'www.somehost.c om';
$path = 'path/to/some/script.php';
$fp = fsockopen($host , '80');
if ($fp) {
fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-length: ". strlen($post_qu ery) ."\r\n\r\n") ;
fputs($fp, $post_query);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 10240);
if ($flag) {
$content .= $line;
} else {
$headers .= $line;
if (strlen(trim($l ine)) == 0) {
$flag = true;
}
}
}
fclose($fp);
}

Now $headers contains HTTP headers returned by the remote server, while
$content contains the body of the response (the document you are trying
to retrieve).

Cheers,
NC

[d]

Re: how does one send a large string as a POST to another web page?

"ZeldorBlat " <zeldorblat@gma il.com> wrote in message
news:1143579273 .137001.105190@ g10g2000cwb.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
>
> lawrence k wrote:[color=green]
>> If I've a big string and I want to send it to another web page as a GET
>> request, I just use file(). I've done this often.
>>
>> But what command do I use when I want to send the same string as a POST
>> request?[/color]
>
> <http://www.php.net/curl>
>[/color]

That's massive overkill for just sending a text string via POST...
fsockopen() is more than enough :)