vellai durai
vellai durai

Reputation: 1011

How to send Accept Encoding header with curl in PHP

How to send Accept Encoding header with with curl in PHP

  $data=json_encode($data);
$url = 'url to send';
$headers = array(
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    );
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);        
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 4);
    $datas  = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

How to Decompress the response

Upvotes: 8

Views: 22080

Answers (2)

Pedro Lobito
Pedro Lobito

Reputation: 99081

You can use CURLOPT_ENCODING:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");

The contents of the "Accept-Encoding: " header. This enables decoding of the response. Supported encodings are "identity", "deflate", and "gzip". If an empty string, "", is set, a header containing all supported encoding types is sent.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php


Alternatively, you can send an header:

$headers = array(
        'Accept: text/plain'
    );

To force the response in text/plain

Upvotes: 7

Wizard
Wizard

Reputation: 862

If you mean how to ungzip the response I did it like this:

<?php
....
$headers = array(
    "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate",
    "Accept-Charset: utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
    "Accept-Language:en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4",
    "Connection: keep-alive",
);
....
$response = curl_exec($curl);
// check for curl errors
if ( strlen($response) && (curl_errno($curl)==CURLE_OK) && (curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE)==200) ) {
    // check for gzipped content
    if ( (ord($response[0])==0x1f) && (ord($response[1])==0x8b) ) {
        // skip header and ungzip the data
        $response = gzinflate(substr($response,10));
    }
}
// now $response has plain text (html / json / or something else)

Upvotes: 3

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