<?php
//
// Example usage...
//
$server = '127.0.0.1';
$port = '80';
$uri = '/cgi-bin/random-cgi';
$content = 'Your post content...';
$post_results = httpPost($server,$port,$uri,$content);
if (!is_string($post_results)) {
die('uh oh, something went wrong');
} else {
die('Here are your results: ' . $post_results);
}
//
// Post provided content to an http server and optionally
// convert chunk encoded results. Returns false on errors,
// result of post on success. This example only handles http,
// not https.
//
function httpPost($ip=null,$port=80,$uri=null,$content=null) {
if (empty($ip)) { return false; }
if (!is_numeric($port)) { return false; }
if (empty($uri)) { return false; }
if (empty($content)) { return false; }
// generate headers in array.
$t = array();
$t[] = 'POST ' . $uri . ' HTTP/1.1';
$t[] = 'Content-Type: text/html';
$t[] = 'Host: ' . $ip . ':' . $port;
$t[] = 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($content);
$t[] = 'Connection: close';
$t = implode("\r\n",$t) . "\r\n\r\n" . $content;
//
// Open socket, provide error report vars and timeout of 10
// seconds.
//
$fp = @fsockopen($ip,$port,$errno,$errstr,10);
// If we don't have a stream resource, abort.
if (!(get_resource_type($fp) == 'stream')) { return false; }
//
// Send headers and content.
//
if (!fwrite($fp,$t)) {
fclose($fp);
return false;
}
//
// Read all of response into $rsp and close the socket.
//
$rsp = '';
while(!feof($fp)) { $rsp .= fgets($fp,8192); }
fclose($fp);
//
// Call parseHttpResponse() to return the results.
//
return parseHttpResponse($rsp);
}
//
// Accepts provided http content, checks for a valid http response,
// unchunks if needed, returns http content without headers on
// success, false on any errors.
//
function parseHttpResponse($content=null) {
if (empty($content)) { return false; }
// split into array, headers and content.
$hunks = explode("\r\n\r\n",trim($content));
if (!is_array($hunks) or count($hunks) < 2) {
return false;
}
$header = $hunks[count($hunks) - 2];
$body = $hunks[count($hunks) - 1];
$headers = explode("\n",$header);
unset($hunks);
unset($header);
if (!verifyHttpResponse($headers)) { return false; }
if (in_array('Transfer-Coding: chunked',$headers)) {
return trim(unchunkHttpResponse($body));
} else {
return trim($body);
}
}
//
// Validate http responses by checking header. Expects array of
// headers as argument. Returns boolean.
//
function validateHttpResponse($headers=null) {
if (!is_array($headers) or count($headers) < 1) { return false; }
switch(trim(strtolower($headers[0]))) {
case 'http/1.0 100 ok':
case 'http/1.0 200 ok':
case 'http/1.1 100 ok':
case 'http/1.1 200 ok':
return true;
break;
}
return false;
}
//
// Unchunk http content. Returns unchunked content on success,
// false on any errors... Borrows from code posted above by
// jbr at ya-right dot com.
//
function unchunkHttpResponse($str=null) {
if (!is_string($str) or strlen($str) < 1) { return false; }
$eol = "\r\n";
$add = strlen($eol);
$tmp = $str;
$str = '';
do {
$tmp = ltrim($tmp);
$pos = strpos($tmp, $eol);
if ($pos === false) { return false; }
$len = hexdec(substr($tmp,0,$pos));
if (!is_numeric($len) or $len < 0) { return false; }
$str .= substr($tmp, ($pos + $add), $len);
$tmp = substr($tmp, ($len + $pos + $add));
$check = trim($tmp);
} while(!empty($check));
unset($tmp);
return $str;
}