I have written a small app that uses curl a while ago and was working. Today I tried to run it and it is not working.
I use curl to post data to another page located on an external server. The Get is working but not the post.
Update 1:
I have narrowed the error down to having an entry called "SOME_KEY" and having the value "'@C:/wamp/www/name.pdf'" in the posts array will cause this problom.
Howcome the @ symbole is causing a problem!!! I am trying to uplaod a file to the server
Solved
Check the answer below.
Original entry
My current curl options
$curl_options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // Return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // Don't return headers
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false, // Follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // Handle all encodings
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => false, // Set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // Timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // Timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 0, // Stop after 10 redirects
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "regify connector", // Who am I? FIREFOX, IE, OPERA, CHROME, SPIDER, SEARCH BOT...etc.
);
the function that posts the data:
function makePostRequest($url, $fields ){
//Create the options
//global $curl_options;
$curl_options[CURLOPT_URL ] = $url;
$curl_options[CURLOPT_POST ] = count($fields);
$curl_options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = $fields;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, $curl_options);
$content = curl_exec ($ch);
$err = curl_errno($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return ($err == 0)?$content:false;
}
PHP's getallheader is returning
array
'Host' => string 'localhost' (length=9)
'Accept' => string '*/*' (length=3)
'Content-Length' => string '16632433' (length=8)
'Expect' => string '100-continue' (length=12)
'Content-Type' => string 'multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------------------93ac4fed717b' (length=70)
CURL's curl_getinfo function is returning:
array
'url' => string 'http://localhost/archieve/index.php' (length=35)
'content_type' => string 'application/json' (length=16)
'http_code' => int 200
'header_size' => int 281
'request_size' => int 263
'filetime' => int -1
'ssl_verify_result' => int 0
'redirect_count' => int 0
'total_time' => float 0.125
'namelookup_time' => float 0
'connect_time' => float 0
'pretransfer_time' => float 0
'size_upload' => float 16632433
'size_download' => float 18
'speed_download' => float 144
'speed_upload' => float 133059464
'download_content_length' => float 18
'upload_content_length' => float 16632433
'starttransfer_time' => float 0.015
'redirect_time' => float 0
'certinfo' =>
array
empty
Can this porblem be cause by the content type? I read on stackoverflow that it recommaded that CURL is smart enough to set this value by itself.
