hit another page

[esthera]

how can I hit another page in my script in php.

I know in asp I would do as follows:

set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "GET", url, false
xmlhttp.send ""
tresponse= xmlhttp.responseText
set xmlhttp = nothing

[fci]

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
can only do file_get_contents if the fopen_wrappers have been enabled

[esthera]

so i tried

$fp = fsockopen("www.example.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
$out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: www.example.com\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
}

with my url and the out as my site and string and I get the following message :

The operation completed successfully. (0)
what does this mean? It doesn't seem to have made the hit.

[fci]

try file_get_contents instead (note: file_get_contents isn't as portable since allow_url_fopen has to be set in the php.ini in current versions of php..), or try fopen:
http://us2.php.net/fopen

[esthera]

thanks for your reply..

now i get the error

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

here's teh code:

$myrequest="http://www.myserver.com/process.asp?name=test&username=testing";
$handle = fopen("$myrequest", "r");

[esthera]

i want to add to teh above that is is making the hit now just also returning an error -- i don't need to retrieve anything -- how can I just get rid of the error?

[fci]

read here:
http://calibro.candyham.com/2006/03/08/cgi-error-the-specified-cgi-application-misbehaved/

then here for more details:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25863