HEAD is just like GET, only it gets just the headers (hence the name)
usually to see if the document has changed according to LastModified:
before doing a full-blown GET.
There shouldn't be a HEAD done before a POST...
Are you sure you are doing a CURLOPT_POST and not CURLOPT_GET...?
On Mon, April 16, 2007 4:43 pm, mbneto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am tring to use curl to access, via POST, a remote 'service'.
> I've
> managed to test it fine but when I use real data to feed the curl it
> gives
> me strange results.
>
> When I check the logs of the remote web server one thing that alarms
> me is
> that with test data I see
>
> A.B.C.D - - [16/Apr/2007:17:41:53 -0400] "POST /service.php HTTP/1.1"
> 200 61
>
> with real data (using the same script)
>
> A.B.C.D - - [16/Apr/2007:17:48:55 -0400] "HEAD /service.php HTTP/1.1"
> 200 -
>
> After reading the user contributed notes I found that it must be
> related
> with encoding. But even if I use the suggested code
>
> $o=""; foreach ($post_data as $k=>$v)
> { $o.=
> "$k=".utf8_encode($v)."&"; }
> $post_data=substr($o,0,-1);
>
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
>
> I get the same results.
>
> Any tips?
>
> php 5.0.4
>
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