I'm using a socket connection in PHP to post data to an Apache webserver. I'm a bit new to this technique, and I am not sure how to isolate the headers from the body of the response.
Sending Code:
<?php
// collect data to post
$postdata = array(
'hello' => 'world'
);
$postdata = http_build_query($postdata);
// open socket, send request
$fp = fsockopen('127.0.0.1', 80);
fwrite($fp, "POST /server.php HTTP/1.1\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "Host: fm1\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "Content-Length: ".strlen($postdata)."\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "Connection: close\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "\r\n");
fwrite($fp, $postdata);
// go through result
$result = "";
while(!feof($fp)){
$result .= fgets($fp);
}
// close
fclose($fp);
// display result
echo $result;
?>
Server Code:
Hello this is server. You posted:
<pre>
<?php print_r($_POST); ?>
</pre>
When posting to one server, I get:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:55:27 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8m PHP/5.3.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.2
Content-Length: 79
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Hello this is server. You posted:
<pre>
Array
(
[hello] => world
)
</pre>
As expected. I want to strip off the headers though, and just read the body from "Hello this is server....." onwards. How can i reliably detect the end of the headers and read the body into a variable?
Also, another server I've tested on replies with this:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:02:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
4d
Hello this is server. You posted:
<pre>
Array
(
[hello] => world
)
</pre>
0
What are the "4d" and "0" around the body text??
Thanks!
PS before someone says use CURL, I can't unfortunately :-(