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[Adam Fields]

I'm working on a php class to post to livejournal programmatically
from my other sites, and running into some problems with the socket.

class source is below, but the basic problem is that I don't seem to
be connecting a valid socket to www.livejournal.com. I thought maybe
the post was the problem (the first symptom was I just didn't get
anything back), so I changed the request to a simple get of the
root. Still nothing. I changed the host to www.yahoo.com, and it
worked. I'm able to telnet to port 80 on www.livejournal.com (from the
server), and issue the exact same set of commands, and I get a
response, but no dice going through the socket from the script. I
tried increasing the timeout, but that's clearly not the problem. It
looks like it's establishing the socket okay, but then I get no
response back.

Any idea why this would behave this way?

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class lj {
  var $user;
  var $pass;

  function lj ($user, $pass) {
    $this->user = $user;
    $this->pass = $pass;
  }

  function postevent ($msgtext, $subject) {
    $options = array('mode' => 'postevent',
                     'user' => $this->user,
                     'hpassword' => md5($this->pass),
                     'event' => $msgtext,
                     'year' => date('Y'),
                     'mon' => date('n'),
                     'day' => date('d'),
                     'hour' => date('H'),
                     'min' => date('i'),
                     'subject' => $subject);

    foreach (array_keys($options) as $key) {
      $poststring .= $key . '=' . urlencode($options[$key]) . '&';
    }
    $poststring = substr($poststring, 0, strlen($poststring) - 1);

    $method = 'POST';
    $path = '/interface/flat';
    $host = 'www.livejournal.com';

    $fp = fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 600);
    if (!$fp) {
      die ('Unable to connect');
    }
    socket_set_timeout($fp, 600);

#    fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.0\
");
#    fputs($fp, "Host: $host\
");
#    fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\
");
#    fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($poststring) . '\
\
');
#    fputs($fp, $poststring);

    # instead of the above post, try a simple get instead
    fputs($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\
\
");

    while (!feof ($fp)) {
      $response = fgets($fp, 128);
      print $response;
    }
    fclose ($fp);

    return $response;
  }
}



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				- Adam

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Adam Fields, Managing Partner, fields at surgam.net
Surgam, Inc. is a technology consulting firm with strong background in
delivering scalable and robust enterprise web and IT applications.
http://www.adamfields.com