/* sendToHost
 * ~~~~~~~~~~
 * Params:
 *   $host - Just the hostname.  No http:// or /path/to/file.html portions
 *   $method - get or post, case-insensitive
 *   $path - The /path/to/file.html part
 *   $data - The query string, without initial question mark
 *   $useragent - If true, 'MSIE' will be sent as the User-Agent (optional)
 *
 * Examples:
 *   sendToHost('www.google.com','get','/search','q=php_imlib');
 *   sendToHost('www.example.com','post','/some_script.cgi',
 *              'param=First+Param&second=Second+param');
 */
function sendToHost($host,$method,$path,$data,$useragent=0)
{
	// Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty
	if (empty($method))
		$method = 'GET';
	$method = strtoupper($method);
	$fp = fsockopen($host,80);
	if ($method == 'GET')
		$path .= '?' . $data;
	fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1\r\n");
	fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n");
	fputs($fp, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
	if ($method == 'POST')
		fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n");
	if ($useragent)
		fputs($fp, "User-Agent: MSIE\r\n");
	fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
	if ($method == 'POST')
		fputs($fp, $data);

	while (!feof($fp))
		$buf .= fgets($fp,128);
	fclose($fp);
	return $buf;
}