Question

I want to send a raw http packet to a webserver and recieve its response but i cant find out a way to do it. im inexperianced with sockets and every link i find uses sockets to send udp packets. any help would be great.

Answer 1

Take a look at this simple example from the fsockopen manual page:

<?php
$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);
}
?>

The connection to the server is established with fsockpen. $out holds the HTTP request that’s then send with frwite. The HTTP response is then read with fgets.