Response to sender of a $POST 3

[maharg]

Hi

I am trying to develop an application where I parse data received from a POST. The POST is happening every 10 seconds approx, with a text data packet of around 10kb. I parse the data and save it to a dB.

If the data is received malformed, or if for any reason I want the sender to resubmit it, I want to send an http response to the sender.

Can be just a OK or ERROR, or 1 or 0

What would be the best mechanism for this?

 

[maharg]

I meant to mention - the POST is automated, by the way, not via a person.

 

[jpadie]

just echo whatever you want.

error_reporting(0);
if ( dosomething_with($_POST) ):
  echo 'all good';
else:
  echo 'something went bang';
endif;

 

[feherke]

Hi

Or set an adequate HTTP response code :

[b]if[/b] [teal](![/teal] [COLOR=darkgoldenrod]dosomething_with[/color][teal]([/teal][navy]$_POST[/navy][teal])[/teal] [teal]):[/teal]
  [COLOR=darkgoldenrod]header[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request'[/i][/green][teal]);[/teal]
[b]endif[/b][teal];[/teal]

Feherke.

http://feherke.github.com/

 

[ChrisHirst]

What would be the best mechanism for this?

That would be as feherke says the HTTP response codes


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[maharg]

Thanks for your input! This is totally different from what I normally do, so I really appreciate your guidance. We have http responses handshking happily now!