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Using fsockopen() to connect to a URL and POST data
My goal is to pass data to the next page in the same way a form POST would, just without having to actually press the button. I know you can use cURL, but i'd rather stick to fsockopen. It seems easy enough, but I can't seem to get it to work. I know for a fact I'm using the correct URL and index.php is a working file. After I run the code below I get this error:
---------ERROR--------
Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname failed in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\manage\
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost/index.php:80 in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\manage\
ERROR: 0 - The operation completed successfully.
----------CODE-----------
SendPost("index.php");
function SendPost($url) {
$fp = fsockopen($_SERVER['HTTP_H
if (!$fp) {
echo "ERROR: $errno - $errstr<br />\n";
} else {
fwrite($fp, "\n");
echo fread($fp, 26);
fclose($fp);
}
}
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What am I doing wrong. I'm using windows XP and would like to get it running on my localhost before using it on my live server.
Since I get the error "ERROR: 0 - The operation completed successfully", php.net says it has something to do with "an indication that the error occurred before the connect() call. This is most likely due to a problem initializing the socket."
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php
Any answers to what I'm doing wrong????
---------ERROR--------
Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname failed in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\manage\
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost/index.php:80 in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\manage\
ERROR: 0 - The operation completed successfully.
----------CODE-----------
SendPost("index.php");
function SendPost($url) {
$fp = fsockopen($_SERVER['HTTP_H
if (!$fp) {
echo "ERROR: $errno - $errstr<br />\n";
} else {
fwrite($fp, "\n");
echo fread($fp, 26);
fclose($fp);
}
}
--------------
What am I doing wrong. I'm using windows XP and would like to get it running on my localhost before using it on my live server.
Since I get the error "ERROR: 0 - The operation completed successfully", php.net says it has something to do with "an indication that the error occurred before the connect() call. This is most likely due to a problem initializing the socket."
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php
Any answers to what I'm doing wrong????
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How do I POST information to the next page? The same way the form post works, but being able to do it in php? Am I on the wrong track with fsockopen?
no you can do it with fsockopen, but you need to emulate the complete HTTP-Request
how this can be done see http://de.php.net/fsockopen#37517
how this can be done see http://de.php.net/fsockopen#37517
Ok, I found this code and it looks like what I want. But it doesn't go to the next page, it just goes to the same page I'm on?? Why doesn't it go to the next page?
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$postdata = http_post('localhost', '/provider_add2.php', 'varible=data&varible2=dat
function http_post($path, $data) {
$host = "localhost";
$path = "/OutSource/".$path;
$http_response = "";
$content_length = strlen($data);
$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-url
fputs($fp, "Content-Length: $content_length\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
fputs($fp, $data);
while (!feof($fp))
{
$http_response .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
return $http_response;
}
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$postdata = http_post('localhost', '/provider_add2.php', 'varible=data&varible2=dat
function http_post($path, $data) {
$host = "localhost";
$path = "/OutSource/".$path;
$http_response = "";
$content_length = strlen($data);
$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-url
fputs($fp, "Content-Length: $content_length\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
fputs($fp, $data);
while (!feof($fp))
{
$http_response .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
return $http_response;
}
The URL in the browser is the same, but the content is from the page you have postetd.
If I understand you correctly you want to empulate a submit of a form by PHP as a Browser would have done it and the Browser should think the form was submited by him?? This is not possible I think. You could use a Location-Header but that does not work with POST.
If I understand you correctly you want to empulate a submit of a form by PHP as a Browser would have done it and the Browser should think the form was submited by him?? This is not possible I think. You could use a Location-Header but that does not work with POST.
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$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/".
=> eg. "www.example.com/url/you/access.php"
That part ."/".$url is too much to define a hostname
That is no valid hostname. I think the function that you want to use is
fopen($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'