Reading HTTP Response

[anand paranjape]

Hi,
I am designing website forms and once the user fill up the form it genrates the xml file. now these XML file is posted through XML request to another application server which saved the form data into it. and after successful submisson the application server sends the response.

This response is in XML format and it gives 2 main values:

1. Status message ( <status>Ok or Error</status>) and
2. submission id. of form ( <id>12126</id>)

Now , how to read the response from the server, status and id value. ( ok or error) as depening upon this value the thankyou message will be displayed.

Thankyou
~Anand

[coopster]

You could open your own socket and handle the request yourself that way or perhaps CURL, Client URL Library Functions [php.net] are an option for you?

[mincklerstraat]

I'm probably not so likely to be up on HTTP headers for xml as coopster, but if you just want the raw HTTP headers you could look at the function apache_response_headers() [php.net].
If you use Microsoft IIS I'm afraid I won't be able to help on this one, it doesn't work for that server.