Using a PHP script to POST to another server


<?php

// Work out the data
 $wannasay = array (
        "email" => "graham@wellho.net",
        "Psotal" => "48, Spa Road (near garage)"
        );
 $dataels = array();
 foreach (array_keys($wannasay) as $thiskey) {
        array_push($dataels,urlencode($thiskey) ."=".
                        urlencode($wannasay[$thiskey]));
        }
 $data = implode("&",$dataels);

// work out the request

 $header =
         "POST /text.php4 HTTP/1.1\n" .
         "Host: www.wellho.net\n" .
         "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n" .
         "Content-Length: " . strlen($data) . "\n\n" .
         $data . "\n";

// establish the connection and send the request

   $s = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   $z = socket_connect($s, gethostbyname("www.wellho.net"), 80);
   socket_write ($s, $header, strlen($header));

$header = "";

   while (true) {
     if (strlen($c = socket_read($s, 1))) {
                $header .= $c;
        }
        }

   socket_close($s);
        print nl2br(htmlspecialchars($header));

?>

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