Exam 200-550 topic 1 question 94 discussion

Consider the following code. What can be said about the call to file_get_contents?
$getdata = "foo=bar";
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $getdata
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$result = file_get_contents('http://example.com/submit.php', false, $context);