Topic awaiting preservation: Send a POST request to a script from another script

Friend was looking for an answer to this, i didn't have one so figured I'd see if you did

"I'm trying to have one script send another one a POST request, this doesn't seem to work, but i don't see whats wrong."

$data="test=sometexttext";

$data=urlencode($data);

$fp = fsockopen("www.site.com", 80);

fputs($fp, "POST /home/user/public_html/folder/file2.php HTTP/1.0\r\n");

fputs($fp, "Host: [url=http://www.site.com\r\n");]www.site.com\r\n");[/url] 

fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-url-encoded\r\n");

fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n");

fputs($fp, "\r\n");

fputs($fp, $data."\r\n");

fputs($fp, "\r\n");

fclose($fp);

This is all the information I was given and I didn't know enough about it to ask for anything else, if you need more info on something directly I can always ask about it though

As always any help is appreciated, thanks in advance

[This message has been edited by Synthetic (edited 11-16-2003).]

The script doesn't work because you're passing local file name of target script as URL.

This line should be changed:

fputs($fp, "POST /home/user/public_html/folder/file2.php HTTP/1.0\r\n");

To the actual URL (relative to www.site.com), like "/folder/file2.php"...

Thanks

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