cron backup job using POST not working anymore ?

[solsikkehaven]

I've been told (from hostgator support) that after upgrading to cpanel 11.25 - POST is no longer a valid command.

I've been using a cron job that initiates a script that sends commands to the built in backup feature in each of my clients cpanel's (i'm a reseller) to backup - and send it to my FTP.

Since last week this has not been working - and this is because POST is not supported ? anymore with cpanel ?

could someone shed some light over this - and maybe direct me to a solution.

The script goes something like this (after all the configuration stuff):

"
foreach ($sites as $site) {
if ($secure) {
$url = "ssl://".$site['domain'];
$port = 2083;
} else {
$url = $site['domain'];
$port = 2082;
}
$socket = fsockopen($url,$port);
if (!$socket) { echo "Failed to open socket connection… Bailing out!\n"; exit; }
// Encode authentication string
$authstr = $site['cpuser'].":".$site['cppass'];
$pass = base64_encode($authstr);
$params =
"dest=$ftpmode&email=$notifyemail&server=$ftphost&user=$ftpuser&pass=$ftppass&port=&rdir
=$ftpdir&submit=Generate Backup";
// Make POST to cPanel
fputs($socket,"POST /frontend/".$site['skin']."/backup/dofullbackup.html?".$params."
HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($socket,"Host: {$site['domain']}\r\n");
fputs($socket,"Authorization: Basic $pass\r\n");
fputs($socket,"Connection: Close\r\n");
fputs($socket,"\r\n");
// Grab response even if we don't do anything with it.
while (!feof($socket)) {
$response = fgets($socket,4096);
if ($debug) echo $response;
}
echo "\nDone with {$site['cpuser']}\n";
fclose($socket);
// sleep(20);
}
?>"

[solsikkehaven]

OK. Found the solution here:
http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/new-cpan...em-148753.html