Hello again! Please disregard my last message. Thank you Brad for reminding me to use regular POST. I still wish I was able to send a 'text/xml' content type. But this will do and is working great. Regards Nauman Akbar Concise Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Nauman Akbar [mailto:naumanakbar78@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nauman Akbar Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 5:25 PM To: 'Brad Fuller'; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Having problem sending XML over HTTP Hello! Thanx for reminding me that I can use a regular POST as well rather then sending XML over HTTP directly :). Perhaps I was quite tired by then. Anyways I tried that. Unfortunately, it seems POST data is not getting through at all. I sent the same query with GET and it is returned fine. But var_dump on both $_POST and $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA return empty strings even with a regular POST with Curl. Yes the data is urlencoded. My server is RHEL4 with Plesk 8.x. I got PHP upgraded to PHP 5 yesterday. I know POST requests are working fine through browser. I have tried Opera and IE and both work just fine. So my guess is; it is probably curl causing the problem. Can someone point me to some resource or documentation on this issue? Regards, Nauman Akbar Concise Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Brad Fuller [mailto:bfuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:16 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Having problem sending XML over HTTP > -----Original Message----- > From: Nauman Akbar [mailto:naumanakbar78@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nauman > Akbar > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:32 PM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Having problem sending XML over HTTP > > Hello! > > > > I picked up an example from Curl section on php.net. I am able to access > the > remote page fine with a custom header. Unfortunately, I am not able to > retrieve the XML I am sending at the remote end. I have tried both > $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA and php://input but neither of them returns anything. > I > am putting my code below just in case anyone can point out the problem in > there. > > > > $xmlstr = <<<XML > > <query> > > <username>fff-bbbb</username> > > <password>alphanumeric</password> > > <function>GetPackageVersion</function> > > </query> > > XML; > > > > $header[] = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n"; > > $header[] = "Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=----doc \r\n"; > > //$header[] = "Accept: text/xml \r\n"; > > $header[] = "Content-length: ".strlen($xmlstr)." \r\n"; > > $header[] = "Cache-Control: no-cache"; > > $header[] = "Connection: close \r\n\r\n"; > > $header[] = $xmlstr; > > > > print("setting url<BR>"); > > $request = curl_init("http://mrcod.concisehosting.com/index.php";); > > print("setting options<BR>"); > > curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); > > curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4); > > curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); > > curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST'); > > > > print("connecting...<BR>"); > > $response = curl_exec($request); > > //curl_exec($request); > > curl_close($request); > > print($response); > > > > I have checked the ini file. Memory reserved for POST is 8M. Moreover, I > even tried turning 'always_populate_http_raw_post_data' but it doesn't > work. > Any one any ideas, I am in real need for help on this. > > > > Regards > > Nauman Akbar > > Concise Solutions Try this: -------------------------------- The code for the sending script: <?php $xmlstr = "<query><username>fff-bbbb</username><password>alphanumeric</password><funct ion>GetPackageVersion</function></query>"; $ch=curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/your-accepting-page.php";); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "xmlstr=".urlencode($xmlstr)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $buffer = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); print_r($buffer); ?> ---------------------------------- The code for the receiving script: <?php if(!empty($_POST)) { echo "You sent me some data... here is what I received:\n"; print_r($_POST); } ?> Then open a browser and surf to the sending script. It should print the response from the receiving page. Here is the output: You sent me some data... here is what I received: Array ( [xmlstr] => <query><username>fff-bbbb</username><password>alphanumeric</password><functi on>GetPackageVersion</function></query> ) I tested this and its working (at least on my server). Sorry I don't have the time to tell you what is wrong with your code but it's easier for me to just provide something that works. I hope that helps you, Brad -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
