Pinging another URL for information

[sussy123]

Hi not too sure if this has been asked on this forum, i've checked but couldnt find one that explains my situation exactly. So if i missed a thread, apologies.

Question is: I am busy setting up a software selling site. How would i go about pinging the developers servers when a purchase is made; so that their servers can send the license codes for the software directly to the client or to me. I want this to be all automated, but dont have a clue where to start to set something like this up. My payment methods is via paypal, so i want it that once paypal notifies me of a purchase, the developers servers are notified and automatically responds.

Hope this makes sense, and apologies again if this question has been asked already.

Thanks

[nonshatter]

Sussy, Good question. I'm not 100% sure on how this would work but this article may get you on the right track for how to use sockets and ping.

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?lngWId=8&txtCodeId=1786

[sussy123]

Thanks for the link. It's alot of info that should get me around the basics. Been researching about it as much as i can.
If anyone still has a specific breakdown, it would help even more.