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Ariful Haque
Ariful Haque

Reputation: 3750

PHP Curl sent wrong Content-Type in post request

I am trying to sent a Post Request to VendHQ Api using oauth2 auth method. I've the correct code, client_id, client_secret etc as It work fine in Postman but when I try to sent the same data using PHP curl, I get the error:

Error

'error' => string 'invalid_request' (length=15)
'error_description' => string 'The request is missing a required parameter, includes an invalid parameter value, includes a parameter more than once, or is otherwise malformed. Check the "grant_type" parameter.' (length=179)

This is the documentation of Requesting Access Token and this is my code which is trying to get the access token.

PHP Code:

$prefix     = $vend[0]['domain_prefix'];
$request_url = 'https://'.$prefix.'.vendhq.com/api/1.0/token';

$body['code']           = $vend[0]['code'];;
$body['client_id']      = $vend[0]['app_id'];;
$body['client_secret']  = $vend[0]['app_secret'];;
$body['grant_type']     = 'authorization_code';
$body['redirect_uri']   = $vend[0]['redirect_uri'];;

$response = $this->invoke($request_url, 'POST', $body);

Invoke function

private function invoke($url, $method, $data = null)
{

    $ch = curl_init($url);

    if($method=='POST'){


        if(isset($data)){
            $data_string = json_encode($data);
        }


        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);

        $headers = array();
        $headers[] = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8";
        $headers[] = 'Content-Length: '.strlen($data_string);

        echo '<br>Curl Headers';
        var_dump($headers);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

    }//END POST


    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $json = curl_exec($ch);

    $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
    echo '<pre>Curl Info<br>';
    var_dump($info);
    echo '</pre>';

    curl_close($ch);

    $json_output = json_decode($json, true);

    return $json_output;

}//end function

I believe I am sending everything fine but the curl is sending but from curl info I get this

'content_type' => string 'application/json; charset=UTF-8' (length=31)

But VendAPI Documentation says to send post data as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".

NOTE Those parameters should be sent as “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” encoded body of a POST request

What I am doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3557

Answers (2)

Donnie Seigler
Donnie Seigler

Reputation: 1

Thanks! Here is a complete example that worked for me after using your answer:

$data = 'grant_type=password';
$data .= '&username='.$username;
$data .= '&password='.$password;
$data .= '&client_id='.$client_id;
$data .= '&client_secret='.$client_secret;

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_URL => $ep_token_issuance,
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
));

$result = curl_exec($ch);

//print_r(curl_getinfo($ch));

curl_close ($ch);

However, the header sent is still the Content-Type: application/json.

Upvotes: 0

Ariful Haque
Ariful Haque

Reputation: 3750

Solved the problem after posting the question here.

The problem is, I am trying to post the data with application/x-www-form-urlencode content type but I was sending data in json format. I've removed this lines from invoke function

if(isset($data)){
    $data_string = json_encode($data);
 }

and set curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); and except creating a $body array, I've created string:

$body   =   'code='.$vend[0]['code'];
$body   .=  '&client_id='.$vend[0]['app_id'];
$body   .=  '&client_secret='.$vend[0]['app_secret'];
$body   .=  '&grant_type=authorization_code';
$body   .=  '&redirect_uri='.$vend[0]['redirect_uri'];

All worked fine :)

Upvotes: 1

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