Getting Started - Fsockopen equivalents

Hey guys,

I'm wayyyy new to this and so am wondering if you might be able to help. We've just finished a project in PHP which includes a large number of functions like the one below - which fire XML to an external server through a POST request and we've been told that there needs to be a migration of the code to .NET within a matter of days! I've never used .NET before and so would love any suggestions on getting a .NET server up and running internally and, more importantly, how you would look at porting code like that below:

Many thanks - hopefully I can become a .NET guru someday!

Cheers

function info($host,$servlet="XMLAPI",$port=80,$time_out=20){
		
		
		$sock = fsockopen ($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, $time_out);    // open socket on port 80 w/ timeout of 20 
		

		$xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
					<Envelope>
						<Body>
								Some XML....
						</Body>
					</Envelope>";
					
		$data = "xml=" . $xml;
		
		 if (!$sock)
		  {
			 print("Could not connect to host:". $errno . $errstr);
			 return (false);
		  }
		  
		  $size = strlen ($data);
		  fputs ($sock, "POST /servlet/" . $servlet . " HTTP/1.1\n");
		  fputs ($sock, "Host: " . $host . "\n");
		  fputs ($sock, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
		  fputs ($sock, "Content-length: " . $size . "\n");
		  fputs ($sock, "Connection: close\n\n");
		  fputs ($sock, $data);
		  
		  $buffer = "";
		  while (!feof ($sock)) {
			 $buffer .= fgets ($sock);
		  }
		//  print ($buffer); 
		  fclose ($sock);
		  return ($buffer);
		
				
}

Re: Getting Started - Fsockopen equivalents

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Re: Getting Started - Fsockopen equivalents

Hi. Did you find the solution? If yes, could you please post the asp.net/C# code in here?

THanks.

Re: Getting Started - Fsockopen equivalents

search for this:

System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient