handle a GET request

[megmogg]

Hi all

Do not know if this is possible.

I need to exchange data with another company/site.

They require me to handle their HTTP GET request and send a response back (a success or error code).

They have suggested that I should write a CGI script but I have no knowledge of this.

The example they give is:

https://yourserver.co.uk/yourscript.cgi?var1=1&var2=test

Can I do this in PHP and return a result?

Thanks in advance

 

[KarveR]

easily I would imagine, depends exactly what you want to do with it.

snippet:

<?php
if(isset($_GET[var1],$_GET[var2]))
{
echo "var 1 : $_GET[var1] var2: $_GET[var2]";
//...
//do whatever with them
//....
}
?>

this requires a url http(s)://yourserver/yourscript.php?var1=something&var2=else

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[megmogg]

Thanks for the quick reply.

That is what I was think (although I am a novice PHP'er).

However, they want a response so they know I have got their data OK.

Do you know how could I do this?

 

[KarveR]

email , smoke signal, sms , database connection.

ok so smoke signals may not be possible, but the rest can all be done.

Really need more info to formulate sensible reply.

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[megmogg]

Thanks for the reply and know what you are saying.

From what I gather, although they are not very clear, they want a 200 response.

 

[megmogg]

.....a http 200 response with a non-empty body......

 

[Kareem]

Check out:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

and

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616

You need a http response 200 Ok ==>10.2.1
You send it with the header function