Submit form externally and retrieve the result

[hackerkts]

Hi, I'm kind of stuck.

 

I'm trying to submit a form to another URL from my own web server, then retrieve the result by getting the page content.

 

But it doesn't seems to work.

 

The page I'm trying to get content is this

http://epoly.tp.edu.sg/tpapp/isistt/TTServlet

 

Use my admin for testing,

0800520I

 

It's either you search by admin or the person name.

 

Anyone has any idea?

[cags]

Since the method of the form is post your best bet will probably be to use cURL, this allows you to send POST variables and retrieve the results.

[hackerkts]

Thanks for the reply!

 

But I couldn't get it to work,

 

this is what my friend had come out with

 

<?php

function PostRequest($url, $referer, $_data) 
{

    // convert variables array to string:
    $data = array();    
    while(list($n,$v) = each($_data)){
        $data[] = "$n=$v";
    }    
    $data = implode('&', $data);
    // format --> test1=a&test2=b etc.

    // parse the given URL
    $url = parse_url($url);
    if ($url['scheme'] != 'http') { 
        die('Only HTTP request are supported !');
    }

    // extract host and path:
    $host = $url['host'];
    $path = $url['path'];

    // open a socket connection on port 80
    $fp = fsockopen($host, 80);

    // send the request headers:
    fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Referer: $referer\r\n");
//fputs($fp, "Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Content-length: ". strlen($data) ."\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
    fputs($fp, $data);

    $result = ''; 
    while(!feof($fp)) {
        // receive the results of the request
        $result .= fgets($fp, 128);
    }

    // close the socket connection:
    fclose($fp);

    // split the result header from the content
    $result = explode("\r\n\r\n", $result, 2);

    $header = isset($result[0]) ? $result[0] : '';
    $content = isset($result[1]) ? $result[1] : '';

    // return as array:
    return array($header, $content);
}



$data = array(
    'txtModule' => 'StudentSearch',
    'txtSelStudentID' => '0800520I',
    'cboSearch' => 'Student',
'txtAction' => 'TTServlet',
'txtAdmNo' => '0800520I');

// send a request to example.com (referer = jonasjohn.de)
list($header, $content) = PostRequest("http://epoly.tp.edu.sg/tpapp/isistt/","http://localhost:80",$data);

// print the result of the whole request:
print $content;

// print $header; --> prints the headers
//print $header;
?>

[cags]

Define "but I couldn't get it to work". Did you read the documentation on cURL that I linked to, or even search for a simple curl post example on google?

[hackerkts]

I read that, but not all the articles.

 

I'm trying out at the script my friend told me, no luck.

 

And yes I did search, I wouldn't ask for help unless I really need to.

[cags]

http://davidwalsh.name/execute-http-post-php-curl

[hackerkts]

OMG, it works!

Thanks cags(:

[cags]

Excellent. Don't forget to mark your topics as 'Solved' ('Mark Solved' button at the bottom left of threads you start).