is this script written correctly?

simulate form post error: getaddrinfo failed

[verb]

I have a form on my website that creates cookies in the header when the page loads. I am attempting to mimic a form post.

I get the following 2 errors when tring to simulate the post:

Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /var/www/html/postit2.php on line 60

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to http::80 in /var/www/html/postit2.php on line 60
Error 0 Success

The initial code on my page with the data I want to automatically send to my form is

 
include("postit2.php");
require_once "HTTP/Request.php";
$req =& new HTTP_Request(" http://www.abc.com/page.php");
$data["dbType"] = "mysql";
 $data["dbHost"] = "localhost";
 $data["dbUser"] = "#*$!";
 $data["dbPass"] = "letmein";
 $data["dbName"] = "me";
 $result = post_it2($data, " http://www.abc.com/page.php");
 if (isset($result["errno"])) { 
 $errno = $result["errno"]; 
 $errstr = $result["errstr"]; 
 echo "<B>Error $errno</B> $errstr"; 
 exit; 
 } else { 
 for($i=0;$i< count($result); $i++) echo $result[$i]; 
 } 
?>

the php file with the function info that should submit the form is:

<?php
function post_it2($data, $URL) {
// Strip http:// from the URL if present
 $URL = ereg_replace("^http://", "", $URL);
// Separate into Host and URI
 $Host = substr($URL, 0, strpos($URL, "/"));
 $URI = strstr($URL, "/");
// Form up the request body
 $ReqBody = "";
 while (list($key, $val) = each($data)) {
  if ($ReqBody) $ReqBody.= "&";
  $ReqBody.= $key."=".urlencode($val);
 }
 $ContentLength = strlen($ReqBody);
// Generate the request header
 $ReqHeader =
  "POST $URI HTTP/1.0\n".
  "Host: $Host\n".
  "User-Agent: PostIt\n".
  "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n".
  "Content-Length: $ContentLength\n\n".
  "$ReqBody\n";
//  echo $ReqHeader;
// Open the connection to the host
 $socket = fsockopen($Host, 80, &$errno, &$errstr);
 if (!$socket) {
  $Result["errno"] = $errno;
  $Result["errstr"] = $errstr;
  return $Result;
 }
 $idx = 0;
 fputs($socket, $ReqHeader);
 while (!feof($socket) && $Result[$idx-1]!= "0\r\n") {
 if (substr($Result[$idx-1], 0, 2) == "0\r\n") echo "The End:".strlen($Result[$idx-1]);
  $Result[$idx++] = fgets($socket, 128);
 }
 return $Result;
 }
?>

why do I get the two errors above? Is it because I am suppose to send the cookies back in the form somehow?

The name of the cookie is PHPSESSID I believe

I have read an article on zend dot com about mimicking submission posts and am still lost. Any help given would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, verb.

There is only one variable on that line that could be giving you a problem, $Host. At least that's what it seems to me. Did you try dumping that variable to the browser and see if it is what you expect?