I just found out how to do it. In case anyone else is interested I've posted the function I found on the net to accomplish it.
/* 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");
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;
}
Found it from
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/12039/fid/51
The function returns the html returned by the script so if you just wanted to see it just echo the function call.