curl_setopt_array
When trying to pass a multi-dimensional array to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, first run it through http_build_query(). That will get rid of the Array to String conversion notice.
curl_setopt
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)
curl_setopt — Eine Option für einen cURL Transfer setzen
Beschreibung
Setzt eine Option für das angegeben cURL-Handle
Parameter-Liste
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ch -
Ein von curl_init() zurückgegebenes cURL-Handle.
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option -
Die zu setzende CURLOPT_XXX-Option
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value -
Der Wert für
valuevaluesollte ein boolean für die folgenden Werte des Parametersoptionsein:Option Wert für valueAnmerkungen CURLOPT_AUTOREFERERTRUEum automatisch den Referer: in Abfragen zu setzen, die einem Redirect per Location: folgenCURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFERTRUEum die unbearbeiteten Daten zurüchzugeben wennCURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFERgesetzt ist.CURLOPT_COOKIESESSIONTRUEum diesen Request als neue "Cookie Session" zu behandeln. Somit wird libcurl alle cookies die geladen werden sollen ignorieren, sofern es sich um "Session Cookies" einer vorherigen Session handelt. Standardmässig lädt und speichert libcurl alle cookies, unabhängig davon, ob es "Session Cookies" sind. Bei "Session Cookies" handelt es sich um Cookies ohne Ablaufdatum, die nur für die aktuelle Session gültig sind.CURLOPT_CRLFTRUEum Unix-Zeilenumbrüche beim Transfer in CRLF-Zeilenumbrüche umzuwandeln.CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHETRUEum den globalen DNS-Cache zu nutzen. Diese Option ist nicht thread-safe und standardmässig aktiviert.CURLOPT_FAILONERRORTRUEum PHP anzuweisen, bei Fehlern (HTTP-Code ist größer oder gleich 400) ohne Fehlermeldung weiter zu arbeiten. Dieses Verhalten ist standardmässig aktiviert.CURLOPT_FILETIMETRUEum zu versuchen, das Änderungsdatum des serverseitigen Dokuments zu ermitteln. Der Wert kann über die Funktion curl_getinfo() unter Verwendung des ParametersCURLINFO_FILETIMEermittelt werden.CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATIONTRUEum jedem "Location: "-Header zu folgen, den der Server als Teil der HTTP-Header zurückgibt. Die Verarbeitung erfolgt rekursiv, PHP wird jedem "Location: "-Header folgen, sofern nichtCURLOPT_MAXREDIRSgesetzt ist.CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSETRUEum die Verbindung nach der Verarbeitung explizit zu schließen, so daß sie nicht wiederverwendet werden kann.CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECTTRUEum den expliziten Aufbau einer neuen Verbindung zu erzwingen, anstatt auf eine gecachte zurückzugreifen.CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRTTRUE, um EPRT (und LPRT) für aktive FTP-Downloads zu nutzen. AufFALSEsetzen, um EPRT und LPRT zu deaktivieren und ausschließlich PORT zu nutzen.CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSVTRUEum vor dem Fallback auf PASV zunächst eine EPSV-Anweisung für einen FTP-Transfer auszuführen. AufFALSEsetzen, um EPSV zu deaktivieren.CURLOPT_FTPAPPENDTRUEum Daten an die serverseitige Datei anzuhängen anstatt diese zu überschreiben.CURLOPT_FTPASCIIEin Alias für CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT, das bevorzugt werden sollte.CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLYTRUEum nur die Namen in einem FTP-Verzeichnis aufzulisten.CURLOPT_HEADERTRUEum den Header in die Ausgabe aufzunehmen.CURLINFO_HEADER_OUTTRUEum den Request-String des Handles zu verfolgen.Verfügbar seit PHP 5.1.3. DasPrefix CURLINFO_ist beabsichtigt.CURLOPT_HTTPGETTRUEum die HTTP-Request-Methode auf GET zu setzen. Da dies die Standard-Methode ist sollte dies nur nach einem Wechsel der Request-Methode notwendig sein.CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNELTRUEum einen vorhandenen Proxy-Tunnel zu nutzenCURLOPT_MUTETRUEum jegliche Ausgabe der cURL-Funktionen zu unterbindenCURLOPT_NETRCTRUEum die lokale Datei ~/.netrc nach Benutzername/Passwort für die Authorisierung des Zugriffs zu durchsuchen.CURLOPT_NOBODYTRUEum den Body nicht in die Ausgabe aufzunehmen.CURLOPT_NOPROGRESSTRUEum die Fortschrittsanzeige für den Transfer auszublenden.Hinweis:
PHP setzt die Option automatisch auf
TRUE. Dies sollte ausschließlich für die Fehlersuche geändert werden.CURLOPT_NOSIGNALTRUEum jegliche cURL-Funktion zu ignorieren, die ein Signal an den PHP-Prozess sendet. In multi-threaded SAPIs ist diese Option standardmässig aktiviert, so daß Timeouts weiterhin abgefangen werden können.Hinzugefügt in cURL 7.10 und PHP 5.0.0. CURLOPT_POSTTRUEum einen HTTP-POST-Request abzusetzen. Dabei handelt es sich um das übliche application/x-www-form-urlencoded, wie es im Allgemeinen von HTML-Formularen erzeugt wird.CURLOPT_PUTTRUEum ein HTTP-PUT für eine Datei abzusetzen. Die fragliche Datei muss dabei über die KonstantenCURLOPT_INFILEundCURLOPT_INFILESIZEgesetzt werden.CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFERTRUEum den Tranfer als String zurückzuliefern, anstatt ihn direkt auszugeben.CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEERFALSEum die Überprüfung des Peerzertifikats seitens cURL zu unterdrücken. Alternative Zertifikate zur Überprüfung können mit der OptionCURLOPT_CAINFOangegeben werden oder ein Zertifikat-Verzeichniss kann mitCURLOPT_CAPATHausgewiesen werden. Ebenso mußCURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOSTggf. aufTRUEoderFALSEgesetzt werden, sofernCURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEERdeaktiviert ist.TRUEals Standard seit cURL 7.10.CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXTTRUEum FTP-Transfers im ASCII-Modus durchzuführen. Für LDAP werden Daten in Klartext statt HTML übertragen. Unter Windows wird STDOUT nicht in den binären Modus gesetzt.CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTHTRUEum beim Folgen eines Location: -Headers (sieheCURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION) weiterhin Benutzername und Passwort zu senden, sogar nach einem Wechsel des Hostnamens.CURLOPT_UPLOADTRUEum einen Upload vorzubereitenCURLOPT_VERBOSETRUEum ausführliche Informationen auszugeben, entweder nach STDERR oder in die mittels der OptionCURLOPT_STDERRgewählte Datei.Für die folgenden
option-Parameter solltevalueein Integer sein:Option Wert für valueAnmerkungen CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZEDie für jede Leseoperation zulässige Buffergröße. Es ist nicht garantiert, daß diese Einstellung genutzt wird. Hinzugefügt in cURL 7.10 and PHP 5.0.0. CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICYSollte entweder CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USEDoderCURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST. Zwar existieren drei weitere CURLCLOSEPOLICY_-Konstanten, diese werden allerdings bisher nicht von cURL unterstützt.CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUTDie Anzahl Sekunden, die der Verbindungsaufbau maximal dauern darf; 0 hebt die Begrenzung auf. CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MSDie Anzahl Millisekunden, die der Verbindungsaufbau maximal dauern darf; 0 hebt die Begrenzung auf. Added in cURL 7.16.2. Available since PHP 5.2.3. CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUTDie Dauer in Sekunden, die ein DNS-Eintrag im Speicher gehalten wird. Der Standard sind 120 Sekunden (2 Minuten). CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTHDie FTP-Authentisierungsmethode (wenn aktiviert): CURLFTPAUTH_SSL (versuche zunächst SSL), CURLFTPAUTH_TLS (versuche zunächst TLS), oder CURLFTPAUTH_DEFAULT (lass cURL entscheiden). Hinzugefügt in cURL 7.12.2 und PHP 5.1.0. CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSIONCURL_HTTP_VERSION_NONE(Standard, lässt cURL entscheiden, welche Version genutzt werden soll),CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0(nutze HTTP/1.0), orCURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1(nutze HTTP/1.1).CURLOPT_HTTPAUTHDie zu nutzende HTTP-Authentisierungsmethode; zur Verfügung stehen:
CURLAUTH_BASIC,CURLAUTH_DIGEST,CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE,CURLAUTH_NTLM,CURLAUTH_ANY, undCURLAUTH_ANYSAFE.Um mehrere Methoden zu kombinieren kann der Bit-|(oder)-Operator verwendet werden; in diesem Fall wird cURL in Abstimmung mit dem Server die günstigste Methode auswählen.
CURLAUTH_ANYist ein Alias für CURLAUTH_BASIC | CURLAUTH_DIGEST | CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE | CURLAUTH_NTLM.CURLAUTH_ANYSAFEist ein Alias für CURLAUTH_DIGEST | CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE | CURLAUTH_NTLM.CURLOPT_INFILESIZEDie erwartete Dateigröße der hochzuladenden Datei in Bytes CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMITDie Transfergeschwindigkeit in Bytes pro Sekunde, die bei Unterschreitung in Kombination mit der Überschreitung von CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIMESekunden bewirkt, dass der Transfer aufgrund der zu niedrigen Transferrate abgebrochen wird.CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIMEDie Zeit in Sekunden, in der die Transferrate unter CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMITgedultet wird. Nach dieser Zeit wird die Transferrate als zu langsam angesehen und der Transfer wird beendet.CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTSDie maximal erlaubte Anzahl persistenter Verbindungen; bei Erreichen des Limits wird mittels CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICYentschieden, welche Verbindung geschlossen wird.CURLOPT_MAXREDIRSDie maximal erlaubte Anzahl von HTTP-Weiterleitungen. Verwenden Sie diese Option zusammen mit CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.CURLOPT_PORTErlaubt das Setzen eines alternativen Ports für die Verbindung. CURLOPT_PROTOCOLSEine Bitmaske von
CURLPROTO_*-Werten. Mit dieser Einstellung lassen sich die Protokolle einschränken die libcurl für diesen Transfer nutzen darf. Damit wird es möglich ein libcurl mit einer Vielzahl an Protokollen zu benutzen, gleichzeitig aber lassen sich die für einen bestimmten Transfer zulässigen Protokolle beschränken. Standardmässig akzeptiert libcurl alle unterstützten Protokolle. Siehe auchCURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS.Zulässige Optionen:
CURLPROTO_HTTP,CURLPROTO_HTTPS,CURLPROTO_FTP,CURLPROTO_FTPS,CURLPROTO_SCP,CURLPROTO_SFTP,CURLPROTO_TELNET,CURLPROTO_LDAP,CURLPROTO_LDAPS,CURLPROTO_DICT,CURLPROTO_FILE,CURLPROTO_TFTP,CURLPROTO_ALLHinzugefügt in cURL 7.19.4. CURLOPT_PROXYAUTHDie HTTP-Authentisierungsmethode(n) für die Proxy-Verbindung. Nutzt die gleiche Bitmaske wie in CURLOPT_HTTPAUTHbeschrieben. NurCURLAUTH_BASICundCURLAUTH_NTLMsind momentan für Proxy-Verbindungen zulässig.Hinzugefügt in cURL 7.10.7 und PHP 5.1.0. CURLOPT_PROXYPORTDer Port, auf den die Proxy-Verbindung erfolgen soll; kann auch mittels CURLOPT_PROXYgesetzt werden.CURLOPT_PROXYTYPEEntweder CURLPROXY_HTTP(Standard) oderCURLPROXY_SOCKS5.Hinzugefügt in cURL 7.10. CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLSEine Bitmaske von CURLPROTO_*-Werten. Mit dieser Einstellung lassen sich die Protokolle einschränken die libcurl für diesen Transfer nutzen darf, wenn eine Weiterleitung stattfindet (setzt voraus daßCURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATIONerlaubt ist). Damit wird es möglich ein libcurl mit einer Vielzahl an Protokollen zu benutzen, gleichzeitig aber lassen sich die für eine Weiterleitung zulässigen Protokolle beschränken. Standardmässig akzeptiert libcurl alle unterstützten Protokolle außer FILE und SCP. Siehe auchCURLOPT_PROTOCOLSfür weitere Informationen zu den Protokoll-Konstanten.Added in cURL 7.19.4. CURLOPT_RESUME_FROMDie Position in Bytes ab der ein Transfer fortgesetzt werden soll. CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST1 um auf die Existenz des Namens im Zertifikat zu prüfen, 2 stellt sicher, daß eine Übereinstimmung mit dem angegebenen Hostnamen vorliegt. CURLOPT_SSLVERSIONEin Wert von 2 oder 3 wählt die entsprechende SSL-Version. Standardmässig wird PHP versuchen, die entsprechende Einstellung zu ermitteln, aber in einigen Fällen mag das manuelle Setzen dieser Option nötig sein. CURLOPT_TIMECONDITIONDieser Wert gibt an, wie CURLOPT_TIMEVALUEbehandelt werden soll. Mögliche Werte sindCURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE(Standard) undCURL_TIMECOND_ISUNMODSINCE. Im ersten Fall wird geprüft, ob die Seite seitCURLOPT_TIMEVALUEgeändert wurde; andernfalls wird ein "304 Not Modified"-Header zurückgegeben (vorausgesetztCURLOPT_HEADERistTRUE).CURL_TIMECOND_ISUNMODSINCEbewirkt das gegenteilige Verhalten.CURLOPT_TIMEOUTDie maximale Ausführungszeit in Sekunden für cURL-Funktionen. CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MSDie maximale Ausführungszeit in Millisekunden für cURL-Funktionen. Added in cURL 7.16.2. Available since PHP 5.2.3. CURLOPT_TIMEVALUEZeit in Sekunden seit dem 1. Januar 1970. Dieser Wert wird von CURLOPT_TIMECONDITIONgenutzt. Als Standard wirdCURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCEgenutzt.Für die folgenden
option-Parameter solltevalueein String sein:Option Wert für valueAnmerkungen CURLOPT_CAINFODer Name einer Datei, die ein oder mehrere Zerifikate enthält, gegen die der Peer geprüft wird. Macht nur Sinn in Verbindung mit CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.CURLOPT_CAPATHEin Verzeichnis, das mehrere CA-Zertifikate enthält. Diese Option sollte In Kombination mit CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEERgenutzt werden.CURLOPT_COOKIEDer Inhalt des im HTTP-Request zu setzenden "Set-Cookie: "-Headers Beachten Sie daß mehrere Cookies durch ein Semikolon gefolgt von einem Leerzeichen getrennt werden (z.B. "fruit=apple; colour=red") CURLOPT_COOKIEFILEDer Name einer Datei, die Cookiedaten enthält. Diese Datei kann im Netscape-Format sein oder HTTP-geformte Header enthalten. CURLOPT_COOKIEJARDer Name einer Datei in der alle internen Cookies beim Schließen des Handles gespeichert werden, z.B. nach einem Aufruf von curl_close. CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUESTEine benutzerdefinierte Request-Methode, die anstelle von GET oder HEAD für den HTTP-Request benutzt werden soll. Dies ist nützlich bei DELETE oder anderen unüblichen Requests. Zulässige Werte sind GET, POST, CONNECT etc. Vollständige HTTP-Requests wie GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n sind unzulässig!
Hinweis:
Führen Sie diese Anfragen nicht durch ohne sicherzugehen, daß Ihr Server die betreffenden Kommandos unterstützt.
CURLOPT_EGDSOCKETAnalog CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, hier wird der Dateiname eines Entropy Gathering Daemon Socket erwartet.CURLOPT_ENCODINGDer Inhalt des "Accept-Encoding: "-Headers. Damit wird das Dekodieren der Serverantwort aktiviert. Unterstützte Kodierungen sind identity, deflate und gzip. Wird ein leerer String "" gesetzt wird ein Header mit allen unterstützten Kodierungen gesetzt. Hinzugefügt in cURL 7.10. CURLOPT_FTPPORTEin String, der genutzt wird, um die IP-Adresse zu erlangen, die von der FTP-POST-Anweisung genutzt wird. Die POST-Anweisung teilt dem entfernten Server mit, zu der angegebenen IP-Adresse zu verbinden. Der String kann eine einfache IP-Addresse, ein Hostname, der Name eines Netzwerkinterfaces (unter Unix) oder nur '-' sein, um die vordefinierte IP-Addresse (des Systems) zu nutzen. CURLOPT_INTERFACEDer Name des zu nutzenden Netzwerkinterfaces für ausgehende Daten. Statt des Namens des Interfaces kann auch eine IP-Adresse oder ein Hostname übergeben werden. CURLOPT_KRB4LEVELDie KRB4 (Kerberos 4) Sicherheitsstufe. Folgende Werte (von niedriger zu höherer Stufe) sind gültig: clear, safe, confidential, private. Sollte der String keinen dieser Werte enthalten dann wird die höchste Stufe genutzt, d.h private. Sollte diese Option mit dem Wert NULL besetzt werden, wird KRB4 Security deaktiviert. Bislang wird KRB4 nur unter Verwendung des FTP unterstützt. CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSDie in einem HTTP-POST-Request zu nutzenden Daten. Um eine Datei zu posten stellen Sie dem Dateinamen @ voran; bitte geben Sie den vollen Pfad zur Datei an. Als Wert kann entweder ein URL-kodierter String übergeben werden wie z.B. 'para1=val1¶2=val2&...' oder ein Array, wobei die Feldnamen als Schlüssel und die Felddaten als Wert verwendet werden. Wird ein Array für valuedann wird der Content-Type-Header auf multipart/form-data gesetzt.CURLOPT_PROXYDer HTTP-Proxy, durch den Requests getunnelt werden sollen. CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWDBenutzername und Passwort in der Form "[benutzername]:[passwort]" für die Proxy-Verbindung. CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILEEin Dateiname der zur Initialisierung des Zufallsgenerators für SSL benutzt wird. CURLOPT_RANGEBereiche an Daten, die empfangen werden sollen. Das Format sollte "X-Y" sein, wobei X oder Y optional sind. HTTP-Transfers unterstützen auch mehrere Komma-getrennte Intervalle im Format "X-Y,N-M". CURLOPT_REFERERDer Inhalt des "Referer: "-Headers CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LISTEine Liste der für SSL zulässigen Chiffren. RC4-SHA und TLSv1 sind zulässig. CURLOPT_SSLCERTDer Name einer Datei die ein Zertifikat im PEM-Format enthält. CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWDDas Passwort für das CURLOPT_SSLCERT-Zertifikat.CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPEDas Format des Zertifikats. Unterstützt werden PEM (Standard), DER und ENG. Hinzugefügt in cURL 7.9.3. CURLOPT_SSLENGINEDer Bezeichner für die Crypto Engine des privaten SSL-Schlüssels, der in CURLOPT_SSLKEYdefiniert ist.CURLOPT_SSLENGINE_DEFAULTDer Bezeichner für die Crypto-Engine für asymmetrische kryptographische Operationen. CURLOPT_SSLKEYDer Name einer Datei, die einen privaten SSL-Schlüssel enthält. CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWDDas geheime Passwort das für den in
CURLOPT_SSLKEYdefinierten privaten SSL-Schlüssel.Hinweis:
Da diese Option sensible Daten enthält sollte das PHP-Script in einer sicheren Umgebung liegen.
CURLOPT_SSLKEYTYPEDer Typ des in CURLOPT_SSLKEYdefinierten privaten SSL-Schlüssels. Unterstützte Schlüssel-Typen sind PEM (Standard), DER und ENG.CURLOPT_URLDer abzurufende URL; kann auch beim initialisieren der Session mittels curl_init() gesetzt werden. CURLOPT_USERAGENTDer Wert des "User-Agent: "-Headers für den HTTP-Request CURLOPT_USERPWDBenutzername und Passwort im Format "[benutzername]:[passwort]" Für die folgenden
option-Parameter solltevalueein Array sein:Option Wert für valueAnmerkungen CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASESEin Array von HTTP-200-Status die als gültige Antoworten und nicht als Fehler behandelt werden. Hinzugefügt in cURL 7.10.3. CURLOPT_HTTPHEADEREin Array von HTTP-Headern, im Format array('Content-type: text/plain', 'Content-length: 100')CURLOPT_POSTQUOTEEin Array von FTP-Kommandos, die nach dem FTP-Request auf dem Server ausgeführt werden sollen. CURLOPT_QUOTEEin Array von FTP-Kommandos, die vor dem FTP-Request auf dem Server ausgeführt werden sollen. Für die folgenden
option-Parameter solltevalueeine Stream-Resource sein, so wie sie z.B. mittels fopen() erstellt werden kannOption Wert für valueCURLOPT_FILEDie Datei, in die der Transfer geschrieben werden soll. Standard ist STDOUT (der Browser). CURLOPT_INFILEDie Datei die zum Upload gelesen werden soll. CURLOPT_STDERREine Datei, in die Fehler ausgegeben werden, alternativ zu STDERR. CURLOPT_WRITEHEADERIn diese Datei werden die Header eines Transfers geschrieben. Für die folgenden
option-Parameter solltevalueein Callback sein, der eine valide Callback-Funktion repräsentiert.Option Wert für valueCURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTIONEine Callback-Funktion, die zwei Parameter erwartet. Der erste ist die cURL-Resource, der zweite ist ein String mit den zu schreibenden Headern. Bei Nutzung dieser Callback-Funktion liegt die Verantwortung für das Schreiben der Header bei Ihnen. Die Funktion sollte die Anzahl der geschriebenen Bytes zurückgeben. CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTIONEine Callback-Funktion, die drei Parameter erwartet. Der erste ist die cURL-Resource, der zweite ein String der ein Passwort-Prompt enthält, der dritte Parameter enthält die maximal zulässige Länge des Passworts. Die Funktion sollte das Passwort als String zurückgeben. CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTIONEine Callback-Funktion, die drei Parameter erwartet. Der erste ist die cURL-Resource, der zweite ist eine Datei-Resource und der dritte ist die Länge; liefert eineb String mit den Werten zurück. CURLOPT_READFUNCTIONEine Callback-Funktion, die zwei Parameter erwartet. Der erste ist die cURL-Resource, der zweite ist ein String mit den zu lesenden Daten. Bei Nutzung dieser Callback-Funktion liegt die Verantwortung für das Lesen der Daten bei Ihnen. Die Funktion sollte die Anzahl der gelesenen Bytes zurückgeben, 0 um EOF zu signalisieren. CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTIONEine Callback-Funktion, die zwei Parameter erwartet. Der erste ist die cURL-Resource, der zweite ist ein String mit den zu schreibenden Daten. Bei Nutzung dieser Callback-Funktion liegt die Verantwortung für das Speichern der Daten bei Ihnen. Die Funktion muss die genaue Anzahl geschriebener Bytes zurückgeben!
Rückgabewerte
Gibt bei Erfolg TRUE zurück. Im Fehlerfall wird FALSE zurückgegeben.
Changelog
| Version | Beschreibung |
|---|---|
| 5.2.10 |
Es wurden CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS und
CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS eingeführt.
|
| 5.1.0 |
Es wurden CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,
CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,
CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH,
CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH und
CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION eingeführt.
|
| 5.0.0 |
Es wurden CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT,
CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL,
CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH,
CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE,
CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH,
CURLOPT_PROXYPORT,
CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE,
CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE und
CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES eingeführt.
|
Beispiele
Beispiel #1 Initialisierung einer neuen cURL-Session und das Abrufen einer Webseite
<?php
// erzeuge einen neuen cURL-Handle
$ch = curl_init();
// setze die URL und andere Optionen
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
// führe die Aktion aus und gebe die Daten an den Browser weiter
curl_exec($ch);
// schließe den cURL-Handle und gebe die Systemresourcen frei
curl_close($ch);
?>
Beispiel #2 Datei-Upload
<?php
/* http://localhost/upload.php:
print_r($_POST);
print_r($_FILES);
*/
$ch = curl_init();
$data = array('name' => 'Foo', 'file' => '@/home/user/test.png');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/upload.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_exec($ch);
?>
Das oben gezeigte Beispiel erzeugt folgende Ausgabe:
Array
(
[name] => Foo
)
Array
(
[file] => Array
(
[name] => test.png
[type] => image/png
[tmp_name] => /tmp/phpcpjNeQ
[error] => 0
[size] => 279
)
)
Anmerkungen
Hinweis:
Ein für
CURLOPT_POSTübergebenes Array wird als multipart/form-data, ein URL-kodierter String als application/x-www-form-urlencoded kodiert.
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User Contributed Notes
curl_setopt
jeffb at nospam dot videx dot com
08-May-2012 10:53
Joey Hewitt
17-Apr-2012 10:52
Note that if you put a certificate chain in a PEM file, the certificates need to be ordered so that each certificate is followed by its issuer (i.e., root last.)
Source: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITIM/SC32-1493-00/en_US/HTML/im451_config09.htm
ellert at _removeme_ vankoperen dot nl
06-Apr-2012 01:41
If you are using curl to do a soap request and consistently get the following error back:
The server cannot service the request because the media type is unsupported.
You are sending the Content-type of soap 1.2 to a 1.1 server.
Soap 1.1 needs Content-Type: text/xml;
Soap 1.2 should have Content-Type: application/soap+xml;
anonymous
03-Apr-2012 03:55
This may be not obvious, but if you specify the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS and don't specify the CURLOPT_POST - it will still send POST, not GET (as you might think - since GET is default).
So the line:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
is synonym to:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
Even if you set the options like this (in this order):
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
it will send POST, since CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is latter.
So if you want GET - make sure you don't have CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS specified somewhere.
mw+php dot net at lw-systems dot de
31-Mar-2012 06:45
The description of the use of the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option should be emphasize, that using POST with HTTP/1.1 with cURL implies the use of a "Expect: 100-continue" header. Some web servers will not understand the handling of chunked transfer of post data.
To disable this behavior one must disable the use of the "Expect:" header with
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Expect:"));
dotpointer at gmail dot com
01-Mar-2012 08:48
About CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR and CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, and which / how to use.
- CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR is used when cURL is reading cookie data from disk.
- CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE is used when cURL is writing the cookie data to disk.
So you need to specify both (and set the same file location on both) when working with sessions for example.
wonderfish+php at gmail dot com
25-Feb-2012 12:22
As of at least PHP 5.3.9, if you are continuing to use a cURL session handle after downloading a file and closing the file handle, you will need to change CURLOPT_FILE back to stdout, and cannot count simply on a side effect of CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to do so, even if you are setting it. For example:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$fh = fopen('/path/to/stored/file/example_file.dat', 'w');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fh);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/example_file.dat');
curl_exec($ch);
fflush($fh);
fclose($fh);
//must reset cURL file handle. Not doing so will cause a warning to be
//thrown and for cURL to default to output regardless
//for our example, we'll set return transfer.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, fopen('php://stdout', 'w'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.org/index.html');
$html = curl_exec($ch); //this will now work
?>
dotpointer at gmail dot com
22-Feb-2012 01:13
I noted something when using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS in combination with arrays from PHP.
You may supply an array, but there may not be any sub-arrays in this array, as this will give Array-to-string-conversion notice.
Example:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
# this works
$data = array('name' => 'value');
# this gives "Notice: Array to string conversion..."
$data = array('name' => array('subname' => 'subvalue'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/test.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_exec($ch);
?>
v dot tverdun at gmail dot com
16-Feb-2012 04:00
Make sure to set keys for array if passing to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
<?php
//This can cause errors
$data = array('bar');
//Use this instead
$data = array('foo' => 'bar');
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
?>
Tim Severien
30-Jan-2012 11:51
I've been stuck when using the CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS constant. In fact, on my PHP version (5.3.1) it's not a number but rather a string. Same thing for CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS.
I got this error: Warning: curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given
If you are experiencing simular problems, you can replace the constant with the actual number or (re)define the constant.
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS should be 155
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS should be 156
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, 2500); // error
curl_setopt($ch, 156, 2500); // problem solved
Adam Monsen
10-Jan-2012 04:36
CURLOPT_POST must be left unset if you want the Content-Type header set to "multipart/form-data" (e.g., when CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is an array). If you set CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to an array and have CURLOPT_POST set to TRUE, Content-Length will be -1 and most sane servers will reject the request. If you set CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to an array and have CURLOPT_POST set to FALSE, cURL will send a GET request.
chsa at ten dot ch
16-Dec-2011 01:39
Sending a post file upload across a squid proxy, the request was rejected by the proxy. In the error page returned it provided among other possible causes:"Expect:" feature is being asked from a HTTP/one.zero.
Solution: Add the option <?php curl_setopt($cl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Expect:")); ?>. This will remove the expect http header.
Steve Kamerman
24-Jun-2011 11:47
If you want cURL to timeout in less than one second, you can use CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, although there is a bug/"feature" on "Unix-like systems" that causes libcurl to timeout immediately if the value is < 1000 ms with the error "cURL Error (28): Timeout was reached". The explanation for this behavior is:
"If libcurl is built to use the standard system name resolver, that portion of the transfer will still use full-second resolution for timeouts with a minimum timeout allowed of one second."
What this means to PHP developers is "You can use this function without testing it first, because you can't tell if libcurl is using the standard system name resolver (but you can be pretty sure it is)"
The problem is that on (Li|U)nix, when libcurl uses the standard name resolver, a SIGALRM is raised during name resolution which libcurl thinks is the timeout alarm.
The solution is to disable signals using CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL. Here's an example script that requests itself causing a 10-second delay so you can test timeouts:
<?php
if (!isset($_GET['foo'])) {
// Client
$ch = curl_init('http://localhost/test/test_timeout.php?foo=bar');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, 200);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$curl_errno = curl_errno($ch);
$curl_error = curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if ($curl_errno > 0) {
echo "cURL Error ($curl_errno): $curl_error\n";
} else {
echo "Data received: $data\n";
}
} else {
// Server
sleep(10);
echo "Done.";
}
?>
m dot ghadam at gmail dot com
13-Jun-2011 02:02
When you set ($ch, curlopt_post, 1) , after you have posted your data with curl_exec , you need to set ($ch, curlopt_post, 0), Otherwise all your subsequent requests seems as a post with no postdata and some reverse proxy servers send 500 or 403 error for these case ( access denied or forbidden )!
PHP at RHaworth dot net
02-Apr-2011 02:31
When CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION and CURLOPT_HEADER are both true and redirect/s have happened then the header returned by curl_exec() will contain all the headers in the redirect chain in the order they were encountered.
support at lostair dot com
07-Mar-2011 03:26
Force Curl Request To Go To A Particular IP Address
Yes, there is a method of passing an IP address to curl. Excellent for services with multiple IP addresses and also to take DNS out of the equation for testing/debugging.
<?php
function fetch_page($url, $host_ip = NULL)
{
$ch = curl_init();
if (!is_null($host_ip))
{
$urldata = parse_url($url);
// Ensure we have the query too, if there is any...
if (!empty($urldata['query']))
$urldata['path'] .= "?".$urldata['query'];
// Specify the host (name) we want to fetch...
$headers = array("Host: ".$urldata['host']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
// create the connecting url (with the hostname replaced by IP)
$url = $urldata['scheme']."://".$host_ip.$urldata['path'];
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
return $result;
}
?>
S\
18-Feb-2011 11:04
When using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS with an array as parameter, you have to pay high attention to user input. Unvalidated user input will lead to serious security issues.
<?php
/**
* test.php:
*/
$ch = curl_init('http://example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array(
'foo' => $_GET['bar']
));
curl_exec($ch);
?>
Requesting "test.php?bar=@/home/user/test.png" will send "test.png" to example.com.
Make sure you remove the leading "@" from user input.
anon@mouse dot com
04-Feb-2011 10:11
If your POST data seems to be disappearing (POST data empty, request is being handled by the server as a GET), try rearranging the order of CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS setting with CURLOPT_NOBODY. CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS has to come AFTER CURLOPT_NOBODY setting because if it comes after it wipes out the Content-Type header that tells your URL target that the request is a POST not a GET.
Not sure if this is expected behavior but it certainly isn't documented (except on Stackoverflow.com, which is supremely unhelpful - BTW, guys over on stack overflow... once you've figured out a PHP problem, posting the solution here would save everyone extra search time).
W at RHaworth dot net
04-Feb-2011 04:22
I had problems with the Wikimedia software and sending a POST request where the data was more than 1024 bytes long. I traced this to cURL adding: Expect: 100-continue to the headers.
I added curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Expect:")); and that suppresses the Expect line.
zsalab
27-Jan-2011 05:12
Handling redirections with curl if safe_mode or open_basedir is enabled. The function working transparent, no problem with header and returntransfer options. You can handle the max redirection with the optional second argument (the function is set the variable to zero if max redirection exceeded).
Second parameter values:
- maxredirect is null or not set: redirect maximum five time, after raise PHP warning
- maxredirect is greather then zero: no raiser error, but parameter variable set to zero
- maxredirect is less or equal zero: no follow redirections
<?php
function curl_exec_follow(/*resource*/ $ch, /*int*/ &$maxredirect = null) {
$mr = $maxredirect === null ? 5 : intval($maxredirect);
if (ini_get('open_basedir') == '' && ini_get('safe_mode' == 'Off')) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, $mr > 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $mr);
} else {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
if ($mr > 0) {
$newurl = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
$rch = curl_copy_handle($ch);
curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, false);
curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
do {
curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_URL, $newurl);
$header = curl_exec($rch);
if (curl_errno($rch)) {
$code = 0;
} else {
$code = curl_getinfo($rch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($code == 301 || $code == 302) {
preg_match('/Location:(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
$newurl = trim(array_pop($matches));
} else {
$code = 0;
}
}
} while ($code && --$mr);
curl_close($rch);
if (!$mr) {
if ($maxredirect === null) {
trigger_error('Too many redirects. When following redirects, libcurl hit the maximum amount.', E_USER_WARNING);
} else {
$maxredirect = 0;
}
return false;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $newurl);
}
}
return curl_exec($ch);
}
?>
gskluzacek at gmail dot com
26-Jan-2011 01:42
FYI... unless you specifically set the user agent, no user agent will be sent in your request as there is no default value like some of the other options.
As others have said, not sending a user agent may cause you to not get the results that you expected, e.g., 0 byte length content, different content, etc.
john dot david dot steele at gmail dot com
03-Dec-2010 01:03
A note on the way Curl posts files...
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('file' => '@/path/to/file.ext');
?>
will post the FULL PATH of the file in the filename field:
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="/path/to/file.ext"
Whereas typical browser behavior only sends the filename:
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="file.ext"
Workaround:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('file' => '@file.ext');
$cwd = getcwd();
chdir('/path/to/');
$receivedData = curl_exec($ch);
chdir($cwd);
?>
scy-phpmanual at scytale dot name
29-Nov-2010 04:01
In order to reset CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, set it to array(). The cURL C API says you should set it to NULL, but that doesn’t work in the PHP wrapper.
prohfesor at gmail dot com
02-Nov-2010 01:30
This function helps to parse netscape cookie file, generated by cURL into cookie array:
<?php
function _curl_parse_cookiefile($file) {
$aCookies = array();
$aLines = file($file);
foreach($aLines as $line){
if('#'==$line{0})
continue;
$arr = explode("\t", $line);
if(isset($arr[5]) && isset($arr[6]))
$aCookies[$arr[5]] = $arr[6];
}
return $aCookies;
}
?>
kavih7 at yahoo dot com
23-Sep-2010 08:59
When POSTing with cURL, my POSTs were magically being converted to GETs and I debugged it until finding the issue. I was setting the CURLOPT_MUTE option. Not sure why this conflicts, since the documentation doesn't specify as such. Anyways, if your $_POST is empty, make sure you aren't setting CURLOPT_MUTE.
Cheers!
curlysue
19-Aug-2010 02:34
If you've got problems with connecting througth a proxy using php/apache/xampp. So if you get no result string from the exec function, try enabling the following options in apache.
...\xampp\apache\conf
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
cURL seems to neet this modules.
daniel at blacklotus dot no
15-Aug-2010 05:33
Sime sites may protect themselves from remote logins by checking which site you came from.
Then you might want to use CURLOPT_REFERER.
<?php
// $url = page to POST data
// $ref_url = tell the server which page you came from (spoofing)
// $login = true will make a clean cookie-file.
// $proxy = proxy data
// $proxystatus = do you use a proxy ? true/false
function
curl_grab_page($url,$ref_url,$data,$login,$proxy,$proxystatus){
if($login == 'true') {
$fp = fopen("cookie.txt", "w");
fclose($fp);
}
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 40);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
if ($proxystatus == 'true') {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $ref_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
ob_start();
return curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean();
curl_close ($ch);
unset($ch);
}
echo curl_grab_page("https://www.example.net/login.php", "https://www.example.net/", "username=foo&password=bar", "true", "null", "false");
?>
sam at def dot reyssi dot net
28-Jul-2010 03:43
Be careful when setting the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS setting using an array. The array used to set the POST fields must only contain scalar values. Multidimentional arrays or objects lacking a __toString implementation will cause Curl to error.
If there is a need to send non-scalar values using a POST request, consider serializing them before transmission.
<?php
$ch = curl_init('http://host.example.com');
// Data to post
$multiDimensional = array(
'name' = 'foo',
'data' = array(1,2,3,4),
'value' = 'bar'
);
// Will error
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $multiDimensional);
// Data to post
$postData = array(
'name' = 'foo',
'data' = serialize(array(1,2,3,4)),
'value' = 'bar'
);
// Will not error
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
?>
joeterranova at gmail dot com
26-Jul-2010 12:57
It appears that setting CURLOPT_FILE before setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER doesn't work, presumably because CURLOPT_FILE depends on CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER being set.
So do this:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
?>
not this:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
?>
patryk at do dot not dot spam dot com
05-Jul-2010 05:33
CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL means curl will use CONNECT method of the HTTP protocol to make a tunnel through a proxy, which is most likely not the one you want to do.
JScott jscott401 at gmail dot com
18-Jun-2010 07:29
Some additional notes for curlopt_writefunction. I struggled with this at first because it really isn't documented very well.
When you write a callback function and use it with curlopt_writefunction it will be called MULTIPLE times. Your function MUST return the ammount of data written to it each time. It is very picky about this. Here is a snippet from my code that may help you
<?php
curl_setopt($this->curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, array($this, "receiveResponse"));
// later on in the class I wrote my receive Response method
private function receiveResponse($curlHandle,$xmldata)
{
$this->responseString = $xmldata;
$this->responseXML .= $this->responseString;
$this->length = strlen($xmldata);
$this->size += $this->length;
return $this->length;
}
?>
Now I did this for a class. If you aren't doing OOP then you will obviously need to modify this for your own use.
CURL calls your script MULTIPLE times because the data will not always be sent all at once. Were talking internet here so its broken up into packets. You need to take your data and concatenate it all together until it is all written. I was about to pull my damn hair out because I would get broken chunks of XML back from the server and at random lengths. I finally figured out what was going on. Hope this helps
shailesh4all at gmail dot com
29-May-2010 03:42
Hi,
Anyone who is interested in submitting their information by post to HTTPS site (e.g. payment gateway) where https page needs basic authentication before submitting the information. below code will be helpful.
<?php
$submit_url = "https://sitename/process.php";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC ) ;
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params );
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $submit_url);
$data = split("text/html", curl_exec($curl) );
$temp = split("\r\n", $data[1]) ;
$result = unserialize( $temp[2] ) ;
print_r($result);
curl_close($curl);
?>
obones_remove_me at free dot fr
27-Apr-2010 03:27
For those of you wondering how to specify the content-type for a file uploaded via curl, the syntax is as follows:
<?php
$data = array('file' => '@/home/user/test.png;type=image/png');
?>
Simply adding a semicolon with the type= at the end.
Note that this has been reported not to work in all versions of PHP and I have done the following tests:
5.2.6 (libcurl 7.18.2) : Does not work
5.2.13 (libcurl 7.20.0) : Works just fine
So it might be worth updating your installation of PHP and/or libcurl if you want to be able to use this syntax
sjungwirth at google mail dot com
22-Apr-2010 03:11
I couldn't find a way to force a curl request to go to a particular IP address, but you can do it with fsockopen:
<?php
$ip = '123.45.67.89';
$fp = fsockopen($ip, 80, $errno, $errstr, 5);
$result = '';
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
$out = "GET /path/to/the/file.ext HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: www.exampl.com\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$result .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
}
?>
I needed it to test the response from a set of servers behind a load balancer.
clint at fewbar dot com
16-Apr-2010 02:56
If you have turned on conditional gets on a curl handle, and then for a subsequent request, you don't have a good setting for CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE , you can disable If-Modified-Since checking with:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $foo);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE, filemtime($foo_path));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION, CURLOPT_TIMECOND_IFMODIFIEDSINCE);
curl_exec($ch);
// Reuse same curl handle
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $bar);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE, null); // don't know mtime
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION, 0); // set it to 0, turns it off
curl_exec($ch);
?>
julien veneziano
08-Apr-2010 03:56
If you need to send deta in a DELETE request, use:
<?php
$request_body = 'some data';
$ch = curl_init('http://www.example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request_body);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
$response = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($response);
?>
anderseta at gmail dot com
22-Mar-2010 02:48
If you wish to find the size of the file you are streaming and use it as your header this is how:
<?php
function write_function($curl_resource, $string)
{
if(curl_getinfo($curl_resource, CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD) <= 2000)
{
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Type: ".curl_getinfo($curl_resource, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE)."");
header("Content-Length: ".curl_getinfo($curl_resource, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD)."");
}
print $string;
return mb_strlen($string, '8bit');
}
1440 is the the default number of bytes curl will call the write function (BUFFERSIZE does not affect this, i actually think you can not change this value), so it means the headers are going to be set only one time.
Writefunction must return the exact number of bytes of the string, so you can return a value with mb_strlen.
?>
starosielec at googlemail dot com
19-Feb-2010 03:07
You can use also use object methods as callback functions. This is usefull if your curl ressource is part of an object handling transfers.
Instead of curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, "curl_handler_recv") you can use array($object, "method") as value for callback options.
For example:
<?php
class downloader {
private $curl;
function __construct() {
$this->curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, array($this, "curl_handler_recv"));
}
function curl_handler_recv($res, $data) {
//...
}
//...
}
?>
Ed Cradock
05-Feb-2010 10:47
PUT requests are very simple, just make sure to specify a content-length header and set post fields as a string.
Example:
<?php
function doPut($url, $fields)
{
$fields = (is_array($fields)) ? http_build_query($fields) : $fields;
if($ch = curl_init($url))
{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Length: ' . strlen($fields)));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
curl_exec($ch);
$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
return (int) $status;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
if(doPut('http://example.com/api/a/b/c', array('foo' => 'bar')) == 200)
// do something
else
// do something else.
?>
You can grab the request data on the other side with:
<?php
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'PUT')
{
parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $requestData);
// Array ( [foo] => bar )
print_r($requestData);
// Do something with data...
}
?>
DELETE can be done in exactly the same way.
Pawel Antczak
09-Dec-2009 12:07
Hello.
During problems with "CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set"
I was looking for solution.
I've found few methods on this page, but none of them was good enough, so I made one.
<?php
function curl_redirect_exec($ch, &$redirects, $curlopt_header = false) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302) {
list($header) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $data, 2);
$matches = array();
preg_match('/(Location:|URI:)(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
$url = trim(array_pop($matches));
$url_parsed = parse_url($url);
if (isset($url_parsed)) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$redirects++;
return curl_redirect_exec($ch, $redirects);
}
}
if ($curlopt_header)
return $data;
else {
list(,$body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $data, 2);
return $body;
}
}
?>
Main issue in existing functions was lack of information, how many redirects was done.
This one will count it.
First parameter as usual.
Second should be already initialized integer, it will be incremented by number of done redirects.
You can set CURLOPT_HEADER if You need it.
php dot net at NO dot sgerrand dot SPAM dot com
02-Nov-2009 11:01
If you change the post array to a string, PHP creates the post data successfully.
As a quick and dirty example of implementing this fix:
<?php
$ch = curl_init;
$url = 'http://www.example.com';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
foreach ($postData as $var) if (strpos($var, '@') === 0) {
$postAsString = true;
}
if ($postAsString === true) {
$str = '';
foreach ($postData as $key => $val) {
$str .= '&' . $key . '=' . $val;
}
$postData = substr_replace($str, '', 0, 1);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
curl_exec($ch);
?>
Chris at PureFormSolutions dot com
22-Sep-2009 03:54
I've found that setting CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER more than once will clear out any headers you've set previously with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER.
Consider the following:
<?php
# ...
curl_setopt($cURL,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array (
"Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8",
"Expect: 100-continue"
));
# ... do some other stuff ...
curl_setopt($cURL,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array (
"Accept: application/json"
));
# ...
?>
Both the Content-Type and Expect I set will not be in the outgoing headers, but Accept will.
Stan van de Burgt
19-Sep-2009 02:41
If you get a "failed creating formpost data" upon curl_exec() when POSTing a form, check if one of the field values starts with the @ character.
Took me an hour or so to find out as I wanted to post a @reply tweet to twitter which typically start with @screenname.
Tyranoweb
04-Sep-2009 02:42
There is a function to send POST data in page with five parameters :
$post must be an array
$page is the page where POST datas will be send.
$n must be true to continue if they are php redirection (Location: )
$session must be define true if you want to use cookies
$referer must be a link to get a wrong referer or only to have a referer.
<?php
function curl_data_post($post, $page, $n, $session, $referer)
{
if(!is_array($post))
{
return false;
}
$DATA_POST = curl_init();
curl_setopt($DATA_POST, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($DATA_POST, CURLOPT_URL, $page);
curl_setopt($DATA_POST, CURLOPT_POST, true);
if($n)
{
curl_setopt($DATA_POST, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
}
if($session)
{
curl_setopt($DATA_POST, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookiefile.txt');
curl_setopt($DATA_POST, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookiefile.txt');
}
if($referer)
{
curl_setopt($DATA_POST, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
}
curl_setopt($DATA_POST, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
$data = curl_exec($DATA_POST);
if($data == false)
{
echo'Warning : ' . curl_error($DATA_POST);
curl_close($DATA_POST);
return false;
}
else
{
curl_close($DATA_POST);
return $data;
}
}
?>
rob
23-Aug-2009 09:07
Whats not mentioned in the documentation is that you have to set CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR to a file for the CURL handle to actually use cookies, if it is not set then cookies will not be parsed.
Sylvain R
28-Jul-2009 03:05
When you are using CURLOPT_FILE to download directly into a file you must close the file handler after the curl_close() otherwise the file will be incomplete and you will not be able to use it until the end of the execution of the php process.
<?php
$fh = fopen('/tmp/foo', 'w');
$ch = curl_init('http://example.com/foo');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fh);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
# at this point your file is not complete and corrupted
fclose($fh);
# now you can use your file;
read_file('/tmp/foo');
?>
mikeseth at gmail dot com
15-Jul-2009 02:32
When using CURLOPT_FILE, pass it the file handle that is open for write only (eg fopen('blahblah', 'w+')). If you also open the file for reading (eg fopen('blahblah', 'rw')), curl will fail with error 23.
Victor Jerlin
03-Jul-2009 04:12
Seems like some options not mentioned on this page, but listed on http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html is actually supported.
I was happy to see that I could actually use CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS even from PHP.
xektrum at gmail dot com
02-Jul-2009 09:14
As of php 5.3 CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION its supported here's how:
<?php
function callback($download_size, $downloaded, $upload_size, $uploaded)
{
// do your progress stuff here
}
$ch = curl_init('http://www.example.com');
// This is required to curl give us some progress
// if this is not set to false the progress function never
// gets called
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, false);
// Set up the callback
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, 'callback');
// Big buffer less progress info/callbacks
// Small buffer more progress info/callbacks
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 128);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
?>
Hope this help.
Andrew
14-Jun-2009 04:56
I noticed that if you want to get current cookie file after curl_exec() - you need to close current curl handle (like it said in manual), but if you want cookies to be dumped to file after any curl_exec (without curl_close) you can:
<?php
#call it normally
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookiefile");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookiefile");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com/');
$result1 = curl_exec($ch);
#and then make a temp copy
$ch_temp=curl_copy_handle(ch);
curl_close($ch);
$ch=$ch_temp;
?>
Only this way, if you close $ch_temp - cookies wont be dumped.
ericbianchetti at gmail dot com
04-Jun-2009 03:06
if you need to send a SOAP string that is the CURL you must use :
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, XML_POST_URL);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('SOAPAction: ""'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, XML_PAYLOAD);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
?>
Note : Having based my snipet on Chemo demonstration (oscommerce user know who he is), XML_POST_URL and XML_PAYLOAD where defined as constant with define().
The point is : at the opposite of .xml , SOAP must send the header 'SOAPAction: ""' that can be a valid URI, an empty string (that is here) or nothing ('SOAPAction: '). The later case baing not accepted by all server, the second one indicating the target is the URI used to post the SOAP.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/#_Toc478383528
franciscocha at gmail dot com
19-May-2009 03:11
Example how to connect to FTPES (FTP explicit SSL). This script will connect to any FTPES server and out put the list of directories.
<?php
$username = 'username';
$password = 'password';
$url = 'example.com';
$ftp_server = "ftp://" . $username . ":" . $password . "@" . $url;
echo "Starting CURL.\n";
$ch = curl_init();
echo "Set CURL URL.\n";
//curl FTP
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ftp_server);
//For Debugging
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, TRUE);
//SSL Settings
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FTP_SSL, CURLFTPSSL_TRY);
//List FTP files and directories
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY, TRUE);
//Output to curl_exec
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
echo "Executing CURL.\n";
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo "Closing CURL.\n";
echo $output . "\n";
$files = explode("\n", $output);
print_r($files);
?>
ashooner - - gmail , com
22-Mar-2009 03:28
When passing CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS a url-encoded string in order to use Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, you can pass a string directly:
<?php
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'field1=value&field2=value2');
?>
rather than passing the string in an array, as in fred at themancan dot com's example.
Ariz Jacinto
01-Feb-2009 06:36
if unserialize() returns FALSE on a serialized PHP object due to an extraneous string (e.g. "1") appended at the end of the object, you need to set the ff cURL option:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
?>
urkle at outoforder dot cc
28-Jan-2009 06:49
To send a post as a different content-type (ie.. application/json or text/xml) add this setopt call
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADERS,array('Content-Type: application/json'));
?>
[EDIT BY danbrown AT php DOT net: Contains a typofix by 'KdoubleU' on 3-FEB-09.]
fnjordy at gmail dot com
30-Nov-2008 11:28
Note that CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER when used with CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION has effectively three settings: default, true, and false.
default - callbacks will be called as expected.
true - content will be returned but callback function will not be called.
false - content will be output and callback function will not be called.
Note that CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION callbacks are always called.
saidk at phirebranding dot com
19-Nov-2008 01:31
Passing in PHP's $_SESSION into your cURL call:
<?php
session_start();
$strCookie = 'PHPSESSID=' . $_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'] . '; path=/';
session_write_close();
$curl_handle = curl_init('enter_external_url_here');
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $strCookie );
curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
?>
This worked great for me. I was calling pages from the same server and needed to keep the $_SESSION variables. This passes them over. If you want to test, just print_r($_SESSION);
Enjoy!
dorphalsig at gmail dot com
10-Oct-2008 02:20
This may not be a surprise for many, but I know I bled my eyes out trying to implement this in php. And when I knew it was this simple, I really felt extremely stupid. So I put this just so google will save somebody some time in the future.
PHP NTLM AUTH
Make sure you have the 'curl' extension loaded
now just do...
<?php
curl_setopt($ch,CURLAUTH_NTLM);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"$username:$password");
?>
and just continue to use curl in the ordinary fashion.
OPALA
26-Sep-2008 12:37
To fetch (or submit data to) multiple pages during one session,use this:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookiefile");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookiefile");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, session_name() . '=' . session_id());
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/page1.php');
$result1 = curl_exec($ch);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/page2.php');
$result2 = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>
rkirilow at gmail dot com
16-Sep-2008 01:34
Some of you may noticed that curl is not transferring cookies between sequent calls to a host. This is because you must activate curl`s "cookie parser". That is achieved using an external file like this:
<?php
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FILE, '/tmp/cookies_file');
?>
If you don`t need to read any cookies but you still want the "cookie parser" use the same code but with dummy file with no data like '/dev/null', that way curl is storing cookies internaly per curl_handle:
<?php
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FILE, '/dev/null');
?>
[EDIT BY danbrown AT php DOT net: In a note dated 26-SEP-08, (adamplumb AT gmail DOT com) offered the following addendum:
[It] should really be CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE. I was bitten by this issue myself with code that previously worked for logging into a website and posting a form. However, at some point the code just stopped working, and I eventually found that I needed to set this option to /dev/null for it to work.
]
George
22-Aug-2008 05:14
If you set CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM to resume the file, and then reuse the same Curl handle to download another file, you must reset the resume status by calling curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM, 0 ). It will not reset, and will apply to all subsequent transfers even if the URL is the same.
w dot danford at electronics-software dot com
12-Aug-2008 10:12
Just a small detail I too easily overlooked.
<?php
/* If you set: */
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
/* then you must have the data: */
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $PostData);
?>
I found with only the CURLOPT_POST set (from copy, paste editing of course) cookies were not getting sent with CURLOPT_COOKIE. Just something subtle to watch out for.
fred at themancan dot com
05-Aug-2008 04:28
To find what encoding a given HTTP POST request uses is easy -- passing an array to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS results in multipart/form-data:
<?php
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('field1' => 'value'));
?>
Passing a URL-encoded string will result in application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
<?php
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('field1=value&field2=value2'));
?>
I ran across this when integrating with both a warehouse system and an email system; neither would accept multipart/form-data, but both happily accepted application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
jID
05-Aug-2008 04:56
if you use
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INTERFACE, "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX");
?>
to specify IP adress for request, sometimes you need to get list of all your IP's.
ifconfig command will output something like:
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet 82.146.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 82.146.XXX.XXX
inet 78.24.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 78.24.XXX.XXX
inet 82.146.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 82.146.XXX.XXX
inet 82.146.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 82.146.XXX.XXX
inet 82.146.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 82.146.XXX.XXX
inet 78.24.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 78.24.XXX.XXX
inet 78.24.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 78.24.XXX.XXX
ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
Opened by PID 564
tun1: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
Opened by PID 565
Opened by PID 565
My solution for FreeBSD 6 and PHP 5 was:
<?php
ob_start();
$ips=array();
$ifconfig=system("ifconfig");
echo $ifconfig;
$ifconfig=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$ifconfig=explode(chr(10), $ifconfig);
for ($i=0; $i<count($ifconfig); $i++) {
$t=explode(" ", $ifconfig[$i]);
if ($t[0]=="\tinet") {
array_push($ips, $t[1]);
}
}
for ($i=0; $i<count($ips); $i++) {
echo $ips[$i]."\n";
}
?>
You will get list of IP adresses in $ips array, like:
82.146.XXX.XXX
78.24.XXX.XXX
82.146.XXX.XXX
82.146.XXX.XXX
82.146.XXX.XXX
78.24.XXX.XXX
78.24.XXX.XXX
ac at an dot y-co dot de
10-Jul-2008 10:08
If you want to connect to a server which requires that you identify yourself with a certificate, use following code. Your certificate and servers certificate are signed by an authority whose certificate is in ca.ctr.
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, '1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, '1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, '1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, getcwd().'/cert/ca.crt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, getcwd().'/cert/mycert.pem');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD, 'password');
?>
If your original certificate is in .pfx format, you have to convert it to .pem using following commands
# openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.pfx -out mycert.key
# openssl rsa -in mycert.key -out mycert.pem
# openssl x509 -in mycert.key >> mycert.pem
nick at glype dot com
07-Jul-2008 09:18
Although CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and the applicable choices are valid constants, setting this option with curl_setopt() always returns false. A quick google search suggests the option is deprecated and/or never worked.
Salil Kothadia
19-Jun-2008 09:02
In PHP5, for the "CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS" option, we can use:
<?php
$ch = curl_init($URI);
$Post = http_build_query($PostData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $Post);
$Output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>
sgamon at yahoo dot com
09-Apr-2008 05:55
If you are doing a POST, and the content length is 1,025 or greater, then curl exploits a feature of http 1.1: 100 (Continue) Status.
See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.2.3
* it adds a header, "Expect: 100-continue".
* it then sends the request head, waits for a 100 response code, then sends the content
Not all web servers support this though. Various errors are returned depending on the server. If this happens to you, suppress the "Expect" header with this command:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
?>
See http://www.gnegg.ch/2007/02/the-return-of-except-100-continue/
john factorial
04-Apr-2008 08:22
Clarification for the CURLOPT_NOBODY option: by excluding the body from your request, you're effectively making a HEAD request. Use the CURLOPT_NOBODY option to return only the headers in the remote response.
Example:
<?php
function check_url($url) {
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); // get the header
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1); // and *only* get the header
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // get the response as a string from curl_exec(), rather than echoing it
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, 1); // don't use a cached version of the url
if (!curl_exec($c)) { return false; }
$httpcode = curl_getinfo($c, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
return ($httpcode < 400);
}
?>
c00lways at gmail dot com
04-Mar-2008 01:16
if you would like to send xml request to a server (lets say, making a soap proxy),
you have to set
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: text/xml"));
?>
makesure you watch for cache issue:
the below code will prevent cache...
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, 1);
?>
hope it helps ;)
mavook at gmail dot com
15-Feb-2008 10:26
If you try to upload file to a server, you need do CURLOPT_POST first and then fill CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvars);
// ^^ This will post multipart/form-data
?>
jade dot skaggs at gmail dot com
07-Jan-2008 09:48
After much struggling, I managed to get a SOAP request requiring HTTP authentication to work. Here's some source that will hopefully be useful to others.
<?php
$credentials = "username:password";
// Read the XML to send to the Web Service
$request_file = "./SampleRequest.xml";
$fh = fopen($request_file, 'r');
$xml_data = fread($fh, filesize($request_file));
fclose($fh);
$url = "http://www.example.com/services/calculation";
$page = "/services/calculation";
$headers = array(
"POST ".$page." HTTP/1.0",
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"Pragma: no-cache",
"SOAPAction: \"run\"",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_data),
"Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($credentials)
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $defined_vars['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
// Apply the XML to our curl call
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_data);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print "Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {
// Show me the result
var_dump($data);
curl_close($ch);
}
?>
Ojas Ojasvi
25-Sep-2007 10:52
<?php
/*
* Author: Ojas Ojasvi
* Released: September 25, 2007
* Description: An example of the disguise_curl() function in order to grab contents from a website while remaining fully camouflaged by using a fake user agent and fake headers.
*/
$url = 'http://www.php.net';
// disguises the curl using fake headers and a fake user agent.
function disguise_curl($url)
{
$curl = curl_init();
// Setup headers - I used the same headers from Firefox version 2.0.0.6
// below was split up because php.net said the line was too long. :/
$header[0] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
$header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$html = curl_exec($curl); // execute the curl command
curl_close($curl); // close the connection
return $html; // and finally, return $html
}
// uses the function and displays the text off the website
$text = disguise_curl($url);
echo $text;
?>
Ojas Ojasvi
charles at tastik dot net
01-Sep-2007 02:27
FYI,
Anyone trying to connect to .NET with CURL to send a simple XML post, pay attention to the following. This will save you hours! There is a previous note that I saw either on this page, or somewhere else on this site that explains the correct way to specify the header option is to create an array, then reference the array from the CURLOPT.
ie. Do something like this:
<?php
// Req. HTTP Header Values
$header[] = "Content-type: text/xml";
// Target URL
$sendTo = "http://www.example.com";
// Post Data
$post = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<root>\n....etc, etc,";
// Create CURL Connection
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'XtraDoh xAgent');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $sendTo);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 900);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTIONTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
?>
Notice the HTTPHEADER, $header above. I have not been able to get .NET to properly read the HTTP header as specified (in this case as text/xml) when using the following:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type'=>'text/xml'));
?>
Although this may work when working with other PHP, IIS, or even PHP, Apache, it does not (at least in my experience) work with .NET, IIS.
andrabr at gmail dot com
20-Aug-2007 02:03
This is very clear in hindsight, but it still cost me several hours:
<?php curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1); ?>
means that you will tunnel THROUGH the proxy, as in "your communications will go as if the proxy is NOT THERE".
Why do you care? - Well, if you are trying to use, say, Paros, to debug HTTP between your cURL and the server, with CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL set to TRUE Paros will not see or log your traffic thus defeating the purpose and driving you nuts.
There are other cases, of course, where this option is extremely useful...
michael sky
05-Jul-2007 03:09
if you are trying to connect to 'https://...' and after that want to work with POST data - that's the way:
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookiefile");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookiefile"); # SAME cookiefile
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "url1"); # this is where you first time connect - GET method authorization in my case, if you have POST - need to edit code a bit
$xxx = curl_exec($curl);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "url2"); # this is where you are requesting POST-method form results (working with secure connection using cookies after auth)
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "var1=value&var2=value&var3=value&"); # form params that'll be used to get form results
$xxx = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
echo $xxx;
?>
sleepwalker at rahulsjohari dot com
27-Jun-2007 11:18
Two things that I noted, one of which has been mentioned earlier, if you are connecting to an SSL site (https) and don't have the appropriate certificate, don't forget to set CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER as "false"... it's set to "true" by default. Scratched my head over 2 hours to figure this one out as I had a machine with an older version installed and everything worked fine without using this option on that one - but failed on other machines with newer versions.
Second very important thing, I've never had my scripts work (tried on various machines, multiple platforms) with a Relative path to a COOKIEJAR or COOKIEFILE. In my experience I HAVE to specify the absolute path and not the relative path.
Small script I wrote to connect to a page, gather all cookies into a jar, connect to another page to login, taking the cookiejar with you for authentication:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "/Library/WebServer/Documents/tmp/cookieFileName");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.example.com/myaccount/start.asp");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
ob_start(); // Prevent output
curl_exec ($ch);
ob_end_clean(); // End preventing output
curl_close ($ch);
unset($ch);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "field1=".$f1."&field2=".$f2."&SomeFlag=True");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/Library/WebServer/Documents/tmp/cookieFileName");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.example.com/myaccount/Login.asp");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>
mcbreen at gmail dot com
12-Jun-2007 02:35
If you are getting the following error:
SSL: certificate subject name 'example.com' does not match target host name 'example.net'
Then you can set the following option to get around it:
<?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE); ?>
vincent at ludden dot nl
12-Jun-2007 01:55
Please note that the CURLOPT_INTERFACE setting only accepts IP addresses and hostnames of the local machine. It is not meant to send a URL to a specific IP address.
ashw1 - at - no spam - post - dot - cz
03-Jun-2007 04:51
In case you wonder how come, that cookies don't work under Windows, I've googled for some answers, and here is the result: Under WIN you need to input absolute path of the cookie file.
This piece of code solves it:
<?php
if ($cookies != '')
{
if (substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3) == 'WIN')
{$cookies = str_replace('\\','/', getcwd().'/'.$cookies);}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookies);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookies);
}
?>
Jon Freilich
11-May-2007 09:52
curl will sometimes return an "Empty reply from server" error if you don't send a User-Agent string. Use the CURLOPT_USERAGENT option.
rob at infoglobe dot net
24-Apr-2007 09:01
Options not included in the above, but that work (Taken from the libcurl.a C documentation)
CURLOPT_FTP_SSL
Pass a long using one of the values from below, to make libcurl use your desired level of SSL for the ftp transfer. (Added in 7.11.0)
CURLFTPSSL_NONE
Don't attempt to use SSL.
CURLFTPSSL_TRY
Try using SSL, proceed as normal otherwise.
CURLFTPSSL_CONTROL
Require SSL for the control connection or fail with CURLE_FTP_SSL_FAILED.
CURLFTPSSL_ALL
Require SSL for all communication or fail with CURLE_FTP_SSL_FAILED.
alfredoaguirre dot v at gmail dot com
13-Mar-2007 04:26
Seems that CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER Option set to TRUE, returns a "1" when the transaction returns a blank page.
I think is for eliminate the FALSE to can be with a blank page as return
paczor
08-Mar-2007 06:50
How to get rid of response after POST: just add callback function for returned data (CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION) and make this function empty.
<?php
function curlHeaderCallback($ch, $strHeader) {
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, 'curlHeaderCallback');
?>
null at nahdah dot com
27-Nov-2006 01:42
I was having problems with Authorize.net and the SSL cert matching even after adding:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
?>
What I found after a lot of stumbling was I needed to set VERIFYHOST to FALSE. So if you are still have a problem with Authorize.NET SSL and cURL add this:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
?>
pyroevi at yahoo dot com
22-Nov-2006 10:33
I was working on using php to interface with an authorize.net gateway, and I ran into a problem with certificates using curl to talk the https:// url.
curl_error() told me "SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK."
I googled it and found the same "solution" over and over again: bypass verification by adding this line after curl_init():
<?php
curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
?>
This worked great, but I was required to verify, so here's what I did. Add the following lines:
<?php
curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_CAINFO, "path:/ca-bundle.crt");
?>
with "path:/ca-bundle.crt" being the path to that certificate file. You can get this file by downloading the curl package (http://curl.haxx.se/download.html) and looking for it in the lib folder.
Feel free to email me.
eion at bigfoot dot com
21-Nov-2006 08:40
If you are trying to use CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION and you get this warning:
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set...
then you will want to read http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php which says "Disabled CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION in curl when open_basedir or safe_mode are enabled." as of PHP 4.4.4/5.1.5. This is due to the fact that curl is not part of PHP and doesn't know the values of open_basedir or safe_mode, so you could comprimise your webserver operating in safe_mode by redirecting (using header('Location: ...')) to "file://" urls, which curl would have gladly retrieved.
Until the curl extension is changed in PHP or curl (if it ever will) to deal with "Location:" headers, here is a far from perfect remake of the curl_exec function that I am using.
Since there's no curl_getopt function equivalent, you'll have to tweak the function to make it work for your specific use. As it is here, it returns the body of the response and not the header. It also doesn't deal with redirection urls with username and passwords in them.
<?php
function curl_redir_exec($ch)
{
static $curl_loops = 0;
static $curl_max_loops = 20;
if ($curl_loops++ >= $curl_max_loops)
{
$curl_loops = 0;
return FALSE;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
list($header, $data) = explode("\n\n", $data, 2);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302)
{
$matches = array();
preg_match('/Location:(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
$url = @parse_url(trim(array_pop($matches)));
if (!$url)
{
//couldn't process the url to redirect to
$curl_loops = 0;
return $data;
}
$last_url = parse_url(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL));
if (!$url['scheme'])
$url['scheme'] = $last_url['scheme'];
if (!$url['host'])
$url['host'] = $last_url['host'];
if (!$url['path'])
$url['path'] = $last_url['path'];
$new_url = $url['scheme'] . '://' . $url['host'] . $url['path'] . ($url['query']?'?'.$url['query']:'');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $new_url);
debug('Redirecting to', $new_url);
return curl_redir_exec($ch);
} else {
$curl_loops=0;
return $data;
}
}
?>
php at miggy dot org
23-Aug-2006 10:35
Note that if you want to use a proxy and use it as a _cache_, you'll have to do:
<?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Pragma: ")); ?>
else by default Curl puts a "Pragma: no-cache" header in and thus force cache misses for all requests.
Philippe dot Jausions at 11abacus dot com
30-May-2006 11:31
Clarification on the callback methods:
- CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION is for handling header lines received *in the response*,
- CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION is for handling data received *from the response*,
- CURLOPT_READFUNCTION is for handling data passed along *in the request*.
The callback "string" can be any callable function, that includes the array(&$obj, 'someMethodName') format.
-Philippe
mr at coder dot tv
14-Apr-2006 07:22
Sometimes you can't use CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR and CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE becoz of the server php-settings(They say u may grab any files from server using these options). Here is the solution
1)Don't use CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION
2)Use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1)
3)Grab from the header cookies like this:
preg_match_all('|Set-Cookie: (.*);|U', $content, $results);
$cookies = implode(';', $results[1]);
4)Set them using curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookies);
Good Luck, Yevgen
heyrocker at yahoo dot com
23-Feb-2006 01:57
The examples below for HTTP file upload work great, but I wanted to be able to post multiple files through HTTP upload using HTML arrays as specified in example 38.3 at
http://php.net/features.file-upload
In this case, you need to set the arrays AND keys in the $post_data, it will not work with just the array names. The following example shows how this works:
<?php
$post_data = array();
$post_data['pictures[0]'] = "@cat.jpg";
$post_data['pictures[1]'] = "@dog.jpg";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/my_url.php" );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$postResult = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
print "$postResult";
?>
petelu $ post dot sk
17-Feb-2006 04:19
load https:// or http://example.com/exam.php
with POST data (name=alex&year=18) and apply COOKIEs
<?php
$sessions = curl_init();
curl_setopt($sessions,CURLOPT_URL,'http://example.com/exam.php');
curl_setopt($sessions, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($sessions,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'name=alex&year=18');
curl_setopt($sessions,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,
dirname(__FILE__).'/cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($sessions,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,0);
curl_setopt($sessions, CURLOPT_HEADER , 1);
curl_setopt($sessions, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$my_load_page = curl_exec($this->sessions);
?>
luca dot manzo at bbsitalia dot com
02-Feb-2006 03:55
If you're getting trouble with cookie handling in curl:
- curl manages tranparently cookies in a single curl session
- the option
<?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "/tmp/cookieFileName"); ?>
makes curl to store the cookies in a file at the and of the curl session
- the option
<?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/cookieFileName"); ?>
makes curl to use the given file as source for the cookies to send to the server.
so to handle correctly cookies between different curl session, the you have to do something like this:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, COOKIE_FILE_PATH);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, COOKIE_FILE_PATH);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
?>
in particular this is NECESSARY if you are using PEAR_SOAP libraries to build a webservice client over https and the remote server need to establish a session cookie. in fact each soap message is sent using a different curl session!!
I hope this can help someone
Luca
Dustin Hawkins
27-Dec-2005 02:24
To further expand upon use of CURLOPT_CAPATH and CURLOPT_CAINFO...
In my case I wanted to prevent curl from talking to any HTTPS server except my own using a self signed certificate. To do this, you'll need openssl installed and access to the HTTPS Server Certificate (server.crt by default on apache)
You can then use a command simiar to this to translate your apache certificate into one that curl likes.
$ openssl x509 -in server.crt -out outcert.pem -text
Then set CURLOPT_CAINFO equal to the the full path to outcert.pem and turn on CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.
If you want to use the CURLOPT_CAPATH option, you should create a directory for all the valid certificates you have created, then use the c_rehash script that is included with openssl to "prepare" the directory.
If you dont use the c_rehash utility, curl will ignore any file in the directory you set.
skyogre __at__ yandex __dot__ ru
22-Dec-2005 02:13
There is really a problem of transmitting $_POST data with curl in php 4+ at least.
I improved the encoding function by Alejandro Moreno to work properly with mulltidimensional arrays.
<?php
function data_encode($data, $keyprefix = "", $keypostfix = "") {
assert( is_array($data) );
$vars=null;
foreach($data as $key=>$value) {
if(is_array($value)) $vars .= data_encode($value, $keyprefix.$key.$keypostfix.urlencode("["), urlencode("]"));
else $vars .= $keyprefix.$key.$keypostfix."=".urlencode($value)."&";
}
return $vars;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, substr(data_encode($_POST), 0, -1) );
?>
phpnet at wafflehouse dot de
23-Oct-2005 06:34
Resetting CURLOPT_FILE to STDOUT won't work by calling curl_setopt() with the STDOUT constant or a php://output stream handle (at least I get error messages when trying the code from phpnet at andywaite dot com). Instead, one can simply reset it as a side effect of CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER. Just say
<?php curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,0); ?>
and following calls to curl_exec() will output to STDOUT again.
webmaster () stauceni.com
20-Oct-2005 01:42
A little mistake, that took a half-day to fix it:
When specifing CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE or CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR options, don't forget to "chmod 777" that directory where cookie-file must be created.
ROXORT at TGNOOB dot FR
21-Sep-2005 07:09
<?php
/*
Here is a script that is usefull to :
- login to a POST form,
- store a session cookie,
- download a file once logged in.
*/
// INIT CURL
$ch = curl_init();
// SET URL FOR THE POST FORM LOGIN
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com/Members/Login.php');
// ENABLE HTTP POST
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
// SET POST PARAMETERS : FORM VALUES FOR EACH FIELD
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'fieldname1=fieldvalue1&fieldname2=fieldvalue2');
// IMITATE CLASSIC BROWSER'S BEHAVIOUR : HANDLE COOKIES
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
# Setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER variable to 1 will force cURL
# not to print out the results of its query.
# Instead, it will return the results as a string return value
# from curl_exec() instead of the usual true/false.
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// EXECUTE 1st REQUEST (FORM LOGIN)
$store = curl_exec ($ch);
// SET FILE TO DOWNLOAD
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com/Members/Downloads/AnnualReport.pdf');
// EXECUTE 2nd REQUEST (FILE DOWNLOAD)
$content = curl_exec ($ch);
// CLOSE CURL
curl_close ($ch);
/*
At this point you can do do whatever you want
with the downloaded file stored in $content :
display it, save it as file, and so on.
*/
?>
mcknight at chek dot com
22-Aug-2005 08:10
when specifing the file for either CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE or CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR you may need to use the full file path instead of just the relative path.
phpnet at andywaite dot com
07-Jun-2005 02:08
After setting CURLOPT_FILE, you may want want to revert back to the normal behaviour of displaying the results. This can be achieved using:
<?php
$fp = fopen ("php://output", "w") or die("Unable to open stdout for writing.\n");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
?>
michaeledwards.com
01-Jun-2005 02:57
Problems can occur if you mix CURLOPT_URL with a 'Host:' header in CURLOPT_HEADERS on redirects because cURL will combine the host you explicitly stated in the 'Host:' header with the host from the Location: header of the redirect response.
In short, don't do this:
<?php
$host = "www.example.com";
$url = "http://$host/";
$headers = array("Host: $host");
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
Do this instead:
$host = "www.example.com";
$url = "http://$host/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
?>
samlowry at e-baka dot net
14-May-2005 06:09
About CURLOPT_ENCODING:
added in curl in 7.10 - Oct 1 2002
In 7.10.5 - May 19 2003 syntax was chnaged:
"setting CURLOPT_ENCODING to "" automaticly enables all supported encodings"
ikendra at yken dot nospam dot org
09-May-2005 09:26
Using cURL, I needed to call a third-party script which was returning binary data as attachment to pass on retrieved data again as attachment.
Problem was that the third-party script occassionally returned HTTP errors and I wanted to avoid passing on zero-length attachment in such case.
Combination of using CURLOPT_FAILONERROR and CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION callback helped to process the third-party script HTTP errors neatly:
<?php
function curlHeaderCallback($resURL, $strHeader) {
if (preg_match('/^HTTP/i', $strHeader)) {
header($strHeader);
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file-name.zip"');
}
return strlen($strHeader);
}
$strURL = 'http://www.example.com/script-whichs-dumps-binary-attachment.php';
$resURL = curl_init();
curl_setopt($resURL, CURLOPT_URL, $strURL);
curl_setopt($resURL, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($resURL, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, 'curlHeaderCallback');
curl_setopt($resURL, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_exec ($resURL);
$intReturnCode = curl_getinfo($resURL, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close ($resURL);
if ($intReturnCode != 200) {
print 'was error: ' . $intReturnCode;
}
?>
raul at navenetworks dot com
21-Jul-2004 01:19
Hi!
I have found some information I am sure it could help lot of programmers when they want to connect with curl to any https website and they haven't a good or right CA Cert :)
I give you just one example It has resolved me 2 hours of my time looking for a solution.
It is simple, just if you get any error in the curl_exec (use curl_error(...) to see the error to trace it) add the next line and everything is solved:
(note: replace $ch with the right curl variable)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$res= curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://yoururl/cgi");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "Idc=si&");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$xyz = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo $xyz;
if ($xyz == NULL) {
echo "Error:<br>";
echo curl_errno($ch) . " - " . curl_error($ch) . "<br>";
}
?>
I hope this helps.
Raul Mate Galan
Ceo Navenetworks Corp.
Note: Thanks to Ruben Lopez Gea for his help too.
ron at ttvavanti dot nl
07-May-2004 08:00
If you specify a CAINFO, note that the file must be in PEM format! (If not, it won't work).
Using Openssl you can use:
openssl x509 -in <cert> -inform d -outform PEM -out cert.pem
To create a pem formatted certificate from a binary certificate (the one you get if you download the ca somewhere).
Jakub Horky <jakub dot php at horky dot net>
04-Apr-2004 01:20
A bit more documentation (without minimum version numbers):
- CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION
- CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION
Pass a function which will be called to write data or headers respectively. The callback function prototype:
long write_callback (resource ch, string data)
The ch argument is CURL session handle. The data argument is data received. Note that its size is variable. When writing data, as much data as possible will be returned in all invokes. When writing headers, exactly one complete header line is returned for better parsing.
The function must return number of bytes actually taken care of. If that amount differs from the amount passed to this function, an error will occur.
- CURLOPT_READFUNCTION
Pass a function which will be called to read data. The callback function prototype:
string read_callback (resource ch, resource fd, long length)
The ch argument is CURL session handle. The fd argument is file descriptor passed to CURL by CURLOPT_INFILE option. The length argument is maximum length which can be returned.
The function must return string containing the data which were read. If length of the data is more than maximum length, it will be truncated to maximum length. Returning anything else than a string means an EOF.
[Note: there is more callbacks implemented in current cURL library but they aren't unfortunately implemented in php curl interface yet.]
tim dot php at ebw dot ca
18-Nov-2003 06:18
The page http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html at the cURL site has a list of all the CURLOPTS, including many not mentioned here. Also see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/ for cURL examples in PHP.
eric at imap dot ch
07-Jul-2003 09:38
I managed to use curl to retrieve information from severs on ports other than 80 or 443 (for https) on some installations but not on all.
If you get an "CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT /* 7 */" error, try adding the port : (for example)
<?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']); ?>
me
14-May-2003 09:36
Just a reminder: When setting your CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS remember to replace the spaces in your values with %20
dweingart at pobox dot com
02-Apr-2003 03:08
If you want to Curl to follow redirects and you would also like Curl to echo back any cookies that are set in the process, use this:
<?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '-'); ?>
'-' means stdout
-dw
yann dot corno at free dot fr
13-Nov-2002 04:19
About the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option, it took me some time to figure out how to format the so-called 'Array'. It fact, it is a list of strings. If Curl was already defining a header item, yours will replace it. Here is an example to change the Content Type in a POST:
<?php curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: text/xml")); ?>
Yann
23-Oct-2002 12:04
beware that not all cURLlib constants are supported under php :
e.g. CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION or CURLOPT_WRITEDATA are not supported.
CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, although undocumented is supported. It takes the name of a user_defined function.
the function should take two arguments (the curl handle, and the inputdata) and return the length of the written data
e.g.
<?php
function myPoorProgressFunc($ch,$str){
global $fd;
$len = fwrite($fd,$str);
print("#");
return $len;
}
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,"myPoorProgressFunc");
?>
Also be aware that CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION does NOT take the CURLOPT_FILE as a parameter!
in curl lib it would take CURLOPT_WRITEDATA but this is not supported by php; that's why I use "global $fd;" in my exemple function.
CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION works the same, and is guaranteed to receive complete header lines as input!
Hope this helps
Ivan
mrcheezy at hotmail dot com
13-Sep-2002 02:34
If you set return transfer to 1 and are sending a post form and find that this crashes php try setting follow location to 1 also. I'm not exactly sure why this crashed, but after i used follow it stopped.
<?php
curl_setopt ($sess, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, '1');
curl_setopt ($sess, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, '1');
?>
paul at zgtec dot com
26-Aug-2002 02:31
To make a POST in multipart/form-data mode
this worked for me, the " \n" at the end of the variables was very important on my OS X server.
<?php
$file = "file_to_upload.txt";
$submit_url = "http://www.example.com/upload_page.php";
$formvars = array("cc"=>"us \n");
$formvars[variable_1] = "bla bla \n";
$formvars[variable_2] = "bla bla \n";
$formvars[variable_3] = "bla bla \n";
$formvars[variable_4] = "bla bla \n";
$formvars[upfile] = "@$file"; // "@" causes cURL to send as file and not string (I believe)
// init curl handle
$ch = curl_init($submit_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "my_cookies.txt"); //initiates cookie file if needed
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "my_cookies.txt"); // Uses cookies from previous session if exist
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.example.net"); //if server needs to think this post came from elsewhere
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1); // follow redirects recursively
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $formvars);
// perform post
echo $pnp_result_page = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>
tychay at alumni dot caltech dot edu
03-Apr-2002 01:14
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER is NOT like the -H command line switch. The command line switch adds or replaces headers (much like the header() line in PHP, but for HTTP clients instead of servers), but the curl extension will eliminate the headers cURL sends by default.
For instance, your Authorization, Host, Referer, Pragma, and Accept headers which are normally written by default or by other CURLOPT_*'s.
Also, it might seem intuitive that this should accept an array hash of header->values, but this is not the case. It accepts an array of strings of the format "Header: Value", much like the -H command-line switch.
Hope this helps,
terry
asmith at crawlspace dot com
28-Feb-2002 07:18
It's possible to take advantage of multiple URLs on the same host in one curl_exec transaction ... just use multiple instances of CURLOPT_URL.
Example:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/a.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/b.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/c.html");
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>
... the URLs appear to be hit in the same order they are entered. This takes advantage of cURL's Persistant Connection capability if all the URLs are on the same host!
bvwj at swbell dot net
18-Dec-2001 01:35
To collect cookies recieved with a request, set CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR "cookieFileName". Then use CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE "cookieFileName" to recall them in subsequent transactions.
22-Sep-2001 09:52
To make a POST in multipart/form-data mode
(to upload a file for example) you can use
<?php curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post); ?>
where $post is an array :
<?php
$post['key1'] = 'data1';
// like a text field in a POST
$post['file1'] = '@filename1'
// upload filename1
?>
For more informations see the
curl_formparse man page.
sr2899.at.hotmail.com
14-May-2001 02:00
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER has the interesting behaviour of tacking a null char onto the end of the string. This null char is actually on the end of the php string, and can cause some odd results if you're not expecting it to be there.
fil at rezox dot com
21-Feb-2001 05:50
If you want to connect to a secure server for posting info/reading info, you need to make cURL with the openSSL options. Then the sequence is nearly identical to the previous example (except http_S_://, and possibly add the useragent):
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://example.com");
//some sites only accept your request if your browser looks legit, so send a useragent profile...
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
?>
bvr at xs4all dot nl
07-Feb-2001 07:09
If you'd like to include extra headers in your POST request, you can accomplish this by setting the following option:
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER
This is similar to the CURL -H command line switch.
Thanks to Daniel Stenberg for pointing out this usefull feature!
Note: this option was first supported in PHP version 4.03 .
awestholm at imail dot usi dot net
25-Jan-2001 11:33
Just because the docs are rather sparse on this, to set multiple values in a cookie, you separate them with a semicolon, as usual. An example, yo set j to j and k to k:
<?php curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIE,"j=j;k=k"); ?>
-- Alex
dan dot polansky at seznam dot cz
17-Jan-2001 02:31
I used to download www pages to my script and one of the pages was different in MS explorer and different, when I downloaded it. Namely, information, I was really interested in was missing. That was because the server on the other bank of the river was looking at who is downloading the page. Everything got fixed when I pretended I was MSIE. It is done with curl. Here is a function, that you may use in similar situation
<?php
function download_pretending($url,$user_agent) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
return $result;
}
?>