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(A F_INET,SOCK_STR EAM,SOL_TCP);
$connection = socket_connect( $socket,'(*IP ADDRESS*)','80' );

socket_write($s ocket,$data);
socket_close($s ocket);
}

login();

?>

[Zurab Davitiani]

Re: php socket question

Sticks wrote:
[color=blue]
> <?php
>
> function login()
> {
> $data = "POST /admin/default.asp HTTP/1.1\r\n";
> $data .= etc etc etc
>
> $socket = socket_create(A F_INET,SOCK_STR EAM,SOL_TCP);
> $connection = socket_connect( $socket,'(*IP ADDRESS*)','80' );
>
> socket_write($s ocket,$data);
> socket_close($s ocket);
> }
>
> login();
>
> ?>[/color]

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]

Re: php socket question

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

[Chung Leong]

Re: php socket question

"Sticks" <barton_finkle@ hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41062a37$0 $22405$5a62ac22 @per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au ...[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

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


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