Using HTTP

Solar provides classes that let you make HTTP requests from web services, and send HTTP responses to clients.

Here's short example:

<?php
/**
 * make a request from a web service and get a response
 */

// first, build a request object
$request = Solar::factory('Solar_Http_Request');

// ask for "?foo=bar&baz=dib" via POST, with a special header
$request->setUri('http://example.com/service.php')
        ->setMethod('post')
        ->setHeader('X-Special-Header', 'Some value')
        ->setContent(array('foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'dib'));

// make the request and get a Solar_Http_Response object
$response = $request->fetch();

// what was the response code?
if ($response->getStatusCode() == 200) {
    // dump the content to the screen
    Solar::dump($response->getContent());
} else {
    // show the response code and text
    echo htmlspecialchars($response->getStatusCode()),
         ": ",
         htmlspecialchars($response->getStatusText());
}
?>