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Hello,

Was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of how to accomplish opening an tunnel in php. We have a website where the frontend is in asp and the backend is php hosted on seperate machines in different locations. We need to be able to open a php http tunnel to feed the front end with material from a different location. If I wasn't clear enough I will gladly try to provide more information.

Thank you in advance.
Here is an example in asp

Code:

  Function XML_readTunnel(ByVal URL_Value)

 ' This function will open an xml tunnel with the given URL_Value    String argument.



  Dim Result

  Dim objHTTP

  Dim searchFor



  searchFor = "?"

  Result = ""

  

  If Instr(URL_Value, searchFor) >= 1 Then URL_Value = URL_Value & "&" Else URL_Value = URL_Value & "?" 



  URL_Value = URL_Value & "DT=" & server.urlencode(TIME)



  Set objHTTP = Server.CreateObject ("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")    

  objHTTP.open "GET", URL_Value, False

  objHTTP.send 



  If Not IsEmpty(objHTTP.responseBody) Then

      Result = objHTTP.responseText

  End If



  Set objHTTP=nothing



  XML_readTunnel = result  



End Function