// simple post method
// version 1.0 by Andrus (andrus@vnet.ee)
// Disclaimer:
// everyone can change or use this code however and wherever they want ;)
// NB! For posting to Microsoft platform webservers you may need to change newlines "
" to "
"
// Microsoft always breaks standards ...
// send out "browser" headers
function send_headers ($fp) {
fputs ($fp, "Accept: */*
");
fputs ($fp, "Accept-Language: en
");
fputs ($fp, "Connection: Keep-Alive
");
fputs ($fp, "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
");
}
// post data and return reply
function post_data ($host, $url, $data) {
$fp = @fsockopen ($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 120);
$ret = "";
if (strncasecmp ($url, "http://", 7) == 0) $url = substr ($url, 7);
$p = strpos ($url, '/');
if (empty ($p)) {
$req = "/";
} else {
$req = substr ($url, $p);
}
if ($fp) {
fputs ($fp, "POST $req HTTP/1.0
");
send_headers ($fp);
