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Reputation: 7024

Sending a POST with PHP doesn't work with curl or file_get_contents, just normal bash CURL

I'm having some serious problems sending a POST. Using curl on the shell, my POST works perfectly. However, when using PHP curl, or file_get_contents, it doesn't work at all. I get a 500 error from the webserver.

curl -X POST -H"Content-Type:application/xml" "http://myserver:8080/createItem?name=NewItem" --user root:123456 --data-binary @template.xml

And this:

$options = array(
    CURLOPT_HEADER => 1, 
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array("Content-Type:application/xml"),
    CURLOPT_URL => "http://myserver:8080/createItem?name=" . rawurlencode("NewItem"), 
    CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT => 1, 
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1, 
    CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE => 1, 
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 20, 
    CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_BASIC,
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => "root:123456",
    CURLOPT_POST => 1,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => file_get_contents("template.xml"),
);

$post = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt_array($post, $options); 
if(!$result = curl_exec($post)) { 
    trigger_error(curl_error($post)); 
} 

curl_close($post);

And this:

$context = stream_context_create(array(
    'http' => array(
        'method'  => 'POST',
        'header'  => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode('root:123456')) . "Content-Type:application/xml",
        'timeout' => 20,
        'content' => file_get_contents("template.xml"),
    ),
));
$ret = file_get_contents("http://myserver:8080/createItem?name=" . rawurlencode("NewItem"), false, $context);

Am i doing something absurd here and i'm not seeing? I don't see a reason for the normal curl from the shell to work perfectly, but not the PHP implementations.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1260

Answers (3)

SteAp
SteAp

Reputation: 11999

According to the documentation, headers here

'header'  => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode('root:123456')) 
           . "Content-Type:application/xml",

should end with \r\n [see example 1 here] 

'header'  => sprintf( "Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode('root:123456')) 
           . "Content-Type: application/xml\r\n",

Upvotes: 0

BronzeByte
BronzeByte

Reputation: 725

It IS possible, take a look at this:

// same as <input type="file" name="file_box">
$post = array(
"file_box"=>"@/path/to/myfile.jpg",
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

Source: http://dtbaker.com.au/random-bits/uploading-a-file-using-curl-in-php.html

Upvotes: 0

Alix Axel
Alix Axel

Reputation: 154603

Hum... I don't think that's possible with php/curl, but try:

CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array('@template.xml'),

Upvotes: 1

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