Post-problem

From: Gerard van Wilgen (gvanwilgen_at_planet.nl)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:56:53 +0100

I have a client-application that uses a socket to post some data to a
server-application. The following piece of code in the client takes care of
the posting:

    $sock = fsockopen("www.majstro.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
    if ($sock)
    {
      $data = 'a=0&b=1';
      fputs($sock, "POST /Web/Majstro/SD_Server.php HTTP/1.0\r\n");
      fputs($sock, "Host: www.majstro.com\r\n");
      fputs($sock, "Accept: */*\r\n");
      fputs($sock, "Content-type: application/x-www-url-encoded\r\n");
      fputs($sock, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n\r\n");
      fputs($sock, "$data\r\n");
      $headers = "";
      while ($str = trim(fgets($sock, 4096)))
        $headers .= "$str\n";
      $body = "";
      while (!feof($sock))
        $body .= fgets($sock, 4096);
      fclose($sock);
      return $body;
    }

My problem is that SD_Server.php is indeed called, but that it is unable to
extract the parameters from the HTTP-header. They are not present in $_POST,
and count($HTTP_POST_VARS) returns the value 0. On the other hand,
$_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] contains the value 7, which is exactly the string
length of "a=0&b=1". So, it seems that the data is present in the header,
but for some reason PHP just cannot parse it.

I have run out of ideas to make this work. Has anybody here a suggestion? It
might work if I use the get method instead of the post method, but I very
much like to know what is wrong with this code.

Gerard van Wilgen 

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