how to use PHP to POST to listening IP/port

[tate_etc]

i can post XML data to a website via cURL

 

can i use cURL to post XML to a local TCP IP/port?

 

when i simply switch the server from server website.com port 443 to server 127.0.0.1 port 2000, the script times out (port 80 works, of course)

 

all programs are installed on same PC. i have two programs that currently post XML data via java socket classes, so i know the ip/port is open

 

does anyone have any suggestions?

[derwert]

Make sure your web server is listening on 127.0.0.1, not all web servers listen on the loopback address.

Some just listen on the public address(es) set in the configuration.

 

You can check by using netstat -a

[tate_etc]

So I finally have gotten a connection between server/client via cURL. The problem was that I wasn't sending a string to the server. I mostly work with web-based programs & they usually error out differently, so I was surprised when I discovered that that was the problem...

 

Now, I would like to be able to send data to the server, but cURL appends header info to the string like this:

 

POST / HTTP/1.1

Host: ausrcsht02:2000

Accept: */*

Content-Length: 51

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

 

0,"004"1,"Assign Tracking Number"498,""499,"1"99,""

 

How do I post just the raw data? Here is my code:

 

<?

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '0,"004"1,"Assign Tracking Number"498,""499,"1"99,""');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "localhost:2000");

$contents = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

echo $contents;

?>

 

Thanks in advance!!!