passing an xml string to a file

Original - php Code <? /* sendToHost * ~~~~~~~~~~ * Params: * $host - Just the hostname. No http:// or /path/to/file.html portions * $method - get or post, case-insensitive * $path - The /path/to/file.html part * $data - The query string, without initial question mark * $useragent - If true, 'MSIE' will be sent as the User-Agent (optional) * * Examples: * sendToHost('www.google.com','get','/search','q=php_imlib'); * sendToHost('www.example.com','post','/some_script.cgi', * 'param=First+Param&second=Second+param'); */ function sendToHost($host,$method,$path,$data,$useragent=0) { // Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty if (empty($method)) $method = 'GET'; $method = strtoupper($method); $fp = fsockopen($host,80); if ($method == 'GET') $path .= '?' . $data; fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1n"); fputs($fp, "Host: $hostn"); fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedn"); fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "n"); if ($useragent) fputs($fp, "User-Agent: MSIEn"); fputs($fp, "Connection: closenn"); if ($method == 'POST') fputs($fp, $data); while (!feof($fp)) $buf .= fgets($fp,128); fclose($fp); return $buf; } ?>

<?
/* sendToHost
 * ~~~~~~~~~~
 * Params:
 *   $host - Just the hostname.  No http:// or /path/to/file.html portions
 *   $method - get or post, case-insensitive
 *   $path - The /path/to/file.html part
 *   $data - The query string, without initial question mark
 *   $useragent - If true, 'MSIE' will be sent as the User-Agent (optional)
 *
 * Examples:
 *   sendToHost('www.google.com','get','/search','q=php_imlib');
 *   sendToHost('www.example.com','post','/some_script.cgi',
 *              'param=First+Param&second=Second+param');
 */
function sendToHost($host,$method,$path,$data,$useragent=0)  
{
    // Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty
    if (empty($method))
        $method = 'GET';
    $method = strtoupper($method);
    $fp = fsockopen($host,80);
    if ($method == 'GET')
        $path .= '?' . $data;
    fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1n");
    fputs($fp, "Host: $hostn");
    fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedn");
    fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "n");
    if ($useragent)
        fputs($fp, "User-Agent: MSIEn");
    fputs($fp, "Connection: closenn");
    if ($method == 'POST')
        fputs($fp, $data);
 
    while (!feof($fp))
        $buf .= fgets($fp,128);
    fclose($fp);
    return $buf;
}
?>