Here is my fsockopen-based HTTP request fonction (GET and POST) :
<?php
function http_request(
$verb = 'GET', $ip, $port = 80, $uri = '/', $getdata = array(), $postdata = array(), $cookie = array(), $custom_headers = array(), $timeout = 1, $req_hdr = false, $res_hdr = false )
{
$ret = '';
$verb = strtoupper($verb);
$cookie_str = '';
$getdata_str = count($getdata) ? '?' : '';
$postdata_str = '';
foreach ($getdata as $k => $v)
$getdata_str .= urlencode($k) .'='. urlencode($v) . '&';
foreach ($postdata as $k => $v)
$postdata_str .= urlencode($k) .'='. urlencode($v) .'&';
foreach ($cookie as $k => $v)
$cookie_str .= urlencode($k) .'='. urlencode($v) .'; ';
$crlf = "\r\n";
$req = $verb .' '. $uri . $getdata_str .' HTTP/1.1' . $crlf;
$req .= 'Host: '. $ip . $crlf;
$req .= 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Firefox/3.6.12' . $crlf;
$req .= 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' . $crlf;
$req .= 'Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5' . $crlf;
$req .= 'Accept-Encoding: deflate' . $crlf;
$req .= 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7' . $crlf;
foreach ($custom_headers as $k => $v)
$req .= $k .': '. $v . $crlf;
if (!empty($cookie_str))
$req .= 'Cookie: '. substr($cookie_str, 0, -2) . $crlf;
if ($verb == 'POST' && !empty($postdata_str))
{
$postdata_str = substr($postdata_str, 0, -1);
$req .= 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' . $crlf;
$req .= 'Content-Length: '. strlen($postdata_str) . $crlf . $crlf;
$req .= $postdata_str;
}
else $req .= $crlf;
if ($req_hdr)
$ret .= $req;
if (($fp = @fsockopen($ip, $port, $errno, $errstr)) == false)
return "Error $errno: $errstr\n";
stream_set_timeout($fp, 0, $timeout * 1000);
fputs($fp, $req);
while ($line = fgets($fp)) $ret .= $line;
fclose($fp);
if (!$res_hdr)
$ret = substr($ret, strpos($ret, "\r\n\r\n") + 4);
return $ret;
}
?>
Example usages :
<?php
echo http_request('GET', 'www.php.net');
echo http_request('GET', 'www.php.net', 80, '/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php');
echo http_request('GET', 'www.php.net', 80, '/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php', array('get1' => 'v_get1'), array(), array('cookie1' => 'v_cookie1'), array('X-My-Header' => 'My Value'));
?>
[EDIT BY danbrown AT php DOT net: Contains a bugfix provided by "Wrinkled Cheese" on 24-JUN-2011 to fix the $getdata foreach() loop; another bugfix provided by Suat Secmen on 12-JAN-2012 to fix a $timeout = 1000, then stream_set_timeout($fp, 0, $timeout * 1000), equaling 1,000 seconds.]