On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Larry Brown < larry.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm sending from a php cli with: > > $post = '<?xml version="1.0" > encoding="UTF-8"?><Data>'.$vendorCompanyID.'</Data>'; > > $message = generatePage($page, $post); > > $ch = curl_init(); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'https://myserver/mytestpage.php'<https://myserver/mytestpage.php%27> > ); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $message); > > $data=curl_exec($ch); > > > I've the server page (mytestpage.php) set up as: > > echo "hello\n"; > > print_r($_SERVER); > > where I replace SERVER with POST etc and I can't find the string '<?xml > version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Data>'.$vendorCompanyID.'</Data>' in > the $data output. I do get the hello so I know I am hitting the server > and when it is set to $_SERVER as listed above I get the expected array > but $_POST is empty. hmm, it looks to me like you want to post a bunch of raw data to the server. im not sure exactly how to do that w/ the php curl functions... everything ive seen uses CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to supply an associative array of data to be posted. in this case you could easily send you data across by choosing a name for the index, something like 'postdata', anything will do, then it will be accessible on the system youre posting to via $_POST['postdata']. also, inlooking at your usage of CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, i dont believe youre using it correctly, i think youre just supposed to put a string representing the desired http method in there, so something like 'HEAD', 'PUT', or in this case 'POST'. then you would supply the data as i said earlier, using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. so in all, i think something like this would work for you, $post = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Data>'. > > $vendorCompanyID.'</Data>'; > > $message = generatePage($page, $post); > > $ch = curl_init(); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'https://myserver/mytestpage.php'<https://myserver/mytestpage.php%27> > ); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('postdata' => $message)); > > $data=curl_exec($ch); and also, in reading the warning about CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, you might just go with CURLOPT_POST => true, since you arent using an obscure http method. im not sure exactly how to determine if the server supports this method or not. anyway, i found this in 'man curl_easy_setopt' (thats the manpage for the c function php uses for the CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST option). Many people have wrongly used this option to replace the entire request with their own, including multiple headers and POST contents. While that might work in many cases, it will cause libcurl to send invalid requests and it could possibly confuse the remote server badly. Use CURLOPT_POST and CUR- LOPT_POSTFIELDS to set POST data. Use CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER to replace or extend the set of headers sent by libcurl. Use CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to change HTTP version. -nathan
