See the curl extension. http://php.net/curl
And as of PHP 4.3 you will be able to open an https page directly with fopen(). -Rasmus On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Ninety-Nine Ways To Die wrote: > Ok I got a question for you guys and gals, I am not sure how to go about this, >looking for opinions. > > I am trying to open a secured url, we'll say >https://www.bob.com/test/index.php?blah=freak > > Also, it's got http-auth in it, say user=abc and password=123, so how would I go >about using php to download the page, compare it, then generate a, say, snmp trap >based on the findings (say I downloaded the page or have search text in the page), >and if it can't get to it, or gets an error, etc... it generates the trap. > Just curious how I should go about this, fopen doesn't seem to support https, not >sure if I could use AUTH with that anyway, but any suggestions are welcome... > > -Matt > > > See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed guitar > >http://r.lycos.com/r/bmgfly_mail_dmb/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_020201/splash.asp > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php