curl_setopt
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)
curl_setopt — Set an option for a cURL transfer
Description
Sets an option on the given cURL session handle.
Parameters
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ch -
A cURL handle returned by curl_init().
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option -
The CURLOPT_XXX option to set.
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value -
The value to be set on
option.valueshould be a bool for the following values of theoptionparameter:Option Set valuetoNotes CURLOPT_AUTOREFERERTRUEto automatically set the Referer: field in requests where it follows a Location: redirect.CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFERTRUEto return the raw output whenCURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFERis used.From PHP 5.1.3, this option has no effect: the raw output will always be returned when CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFERis used.CURLOPT_COOKIESESSIONTRUEto mark this as a new cookie "session". It will force libcurl to ignore all cookies it is about to load that are "session cookies" from the previous session. By default, libcurl always stores and loads all cookies, independent if they are session cookies or not. Session cookies are cookies without expiry date and they are meant to be alive and existing for this "session" only.CURLOPT_CERTINFOTRUEto output SSL certification information to STDERR on secure transfers.Added in cURL 7.19.1. Available since PHP 5.3.2. Requires CURLOPT_VERBOSEto be on to have an effect.CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLYTRUEtells the library to perform all the required proxy authentication and connection setup, but no data transfer. This option is implemented for HTTP, SMTP and POP3.Added in 7.15.2. Available since PHP 5.5.0. CURLOPT_CRLFTRUEto convert Unix newlines to CRLF newlines on transfers.CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHETRUEto use a global DNS cache. This option is not thread-safe and is enabled by default.CURLOPT_FAILONERRORTRUEto fail verbosely if the HTTP code returned is greater than or equal to 400. The default behavior is to return the page normally, ignoring the code.CURLOPT_FILETIMETRUEto attempt to retrieve the modification date of the remote document. This value can be retrieved using theCURLINFO_FILETIMEoption with curl_getinfo().CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATIONTRUEto follow any "Location: " header that the server sends as part of the HTTP header (note this is recursive, PHP will follow as many "Location: " headers that it is sent, unlessCURLOPT_MAXREDIRSis set).CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSETRUEto force the connection to explicitly close when it has finished processing, and not be pooled for reuse.CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECTTRUEto force the use of a new connection instead of a cached one.CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRTTRUEto use EPRT (and LPRT) when doing active FTP downloads. UseFALSEto disable EPRT and LPRT and use PORT only.CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSVTRUEto first try an EPSV command for FTP transfers before reverting back to PASV. Set toFALSEto disable EPSV.CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRSTRUEto create missing directories when an FTP operation encounters a path that currently doesn't exist.CURLOPT_FTPAPPENDTRUEto append to the remote file instead of overwriting it.CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAYPass a long specifying whether the TCP_NODELAY option is to be set or cleared (1 = set, 0 = clear). The option is cleared by default. Available since PHP 5.2.1 for versions compiled with libcurl 7.11.2 or greater. CURLOPT_FTPASCIIAn alias of CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT. Use that instead.CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLYTRUEto only list the names of an FTP directory.CURLOPT_HEADERTRUEto include the header in the output.CURLINFO_HEADER_OUTTRUEto track the handle's request string.Available since PHP 5.1.3. The CURLINFO_prefix is intentional.CURLOPT_HTTPGETTRUEto reset the HTTP request method to GET. Since GET is the default, this is only necessary if the request method has been changed.CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNELTRUEto tunnel through a given HTTP proxy.CURLOPT_MUTETRUEto be completely silent with regards to the cURL functions.Removed in cURL 7.15.5 (You can use CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER instead) CURLOPT_NETRCTRUEto scan the ~/.netrc file to find a username and password for the remote site that a connection is being established with.CURLOPT_NOBODYTRUEto exclude the body from the output. Request method is then set to HEAD. Changing this toFALSEdoes not change it to GET.CURLOPT_NOPROGRESSTRUEto disable the progress meter for cURL transfers.Note:
PHP automatically sets this option to
TRUE, this should only be changed for debugging purposes.CURLOPT_NOSIGNALTRUEto ignore any cURL function that causes a signal to be sent to the PHP process. This is turned on by default in multi-threaded SAPIs so timeout options can still be used.Added in cURL 7.10. CURLOPT_POSTTRUEto do a regular HTTP POST. This POST is the normal application/x-www-form-urlencoded kind, most commonly used by HTML forms.CURLOPT_PUTTRUEto HTTP PUT a file. The file to PUT must be set withCURLOPT_INFILEandCURLOPT_INFILESIZE.CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFERTRUEto return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEERFALSEto stop cURL from verifying the peer's certificate. Alternate certificates to verify against can be specified with theCURLOPT_CAINFOoption or a certificate directory can be specified with theCURLOPT_CAPATHoption.TRUEby default as of cURL 7.10. Default bundle installed as of cURL 7.10.CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXTTRUEto use ASCII mode for FTP transfers. For LDAP, it retrieves data in plain text instead of HTML. On Windows systems, it will not set STDOUT to binary mode.CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTHTRUEto keep sending the username and password when following locations (usingCURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION), even when the hostname has changed.CURLOPT_UPLOADTRUEto prepare for an upload.CURLOPT_VERBOSETRUEto output verbose information. Writes output to STDERR, or the file specified usingCURLOPT_STDERR.valueshould be an integer for the following values of theoptionparameter:Option Set valuetoNotes CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZEThe size of the buffer to use for each read. There is no guarantee this request will be fulfilled, however. Added in cURL 7.10. CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICYOne of the CURLCLOSEPOLICY_*values.Note:
This option is deprecated, as it was never implemented in cURL and never had any effect.
Removed in PHP 5.6.0. CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUTThe number of seconds to wait while trying to connect. Use 0 to wait indefinitely. CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MSThe number of milliseconds to wait while trying to connect. Use 0 to wait indefinitely. If libcurl is built to use the standard system name resolver, that portion of the connect will still use full-second resolution for timeouts with a minimum timeout allowed of one second. Added in cURL 7.16.2. Available since PHP 5.2.3. CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUTThe number of seconds to keep DNS entries in memory. This option is set to 120 (2 minutes) by default. CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTHThe FTP authentication method (when is activated): CURLFTPAUTH_SSL (try SSL first), CURLFTPAUTH_TLS (try TLS first), or CURLFTPAUTH_DEFAULT (let cURL decide). Added in cURL 7.12.2. CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSIONCURL_HTTP_VERSION_NONE(default, lets CURL decide which version to use),CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0(forces HTTP/1.0), orCURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1(forces HTTP/1.1).CURLOPT_HTTPAUTHThe HTTP authentication method(s) to use. The options are:
CURLAUTH_BASIC,CURLAUTH_DIGEST,CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE,CURLAUTH_NTLM,CURLAUTH_ANY, andCURLAUTH_ANYSAFE.The bitwise | (or) operator can be used to combine more than one method. If this is done, cURL will poll the server to see what methods it supports and pick the best one.
CURLAUTH_ANYis an alias for CURLAUTH_BASIC | CURLAUTH_DIGEST | CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE | CURLAUTH_NTLM.CURLAUTH_ANYSAFEis an alias for CURLAUTH_DIGEST | CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE | CURLAUTH_NTLM.CURLOPT_INFILESIZEThe expected size, in bytes, of the file when uploading a file to a remote site. Note that using this option will not stop libcurl from sending more data, as exactly what is sent depends on CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMITThe transfer speed, in bytes per second, that the transfer should be below during the count of CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIMEseconds before PHP considers the transfer too slow and aborts.CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIMEThe number of seconds the transfer speed should be below CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMITbefore PHP considers the transfer too slow and aborts.CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTSThe maximum amount of persistent connections that are allowed. When the limit is reached, CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICYis used to determine which connection to close.CURLOPT_MAXREDIRSThe maximum amount of HTTP redirections to follow. Use this option alongside CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.CURLOPT_PORTAn alternative port number to connect to. CURLOPT_PROTOCOLSBitmask of
CURLPROTO_*values. If used, this bitmask limits what protocols libcurl may use in the transfer. This allows you to have a libcurl built to support a wide range of protocols but still limit specific transfers to only be allowed to use a subset of them. By default libcurl will accept all protocols it supports. See alsoCURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS.Valid protocol options are:
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_ALLAdded in cURL 7.19.4. CURLOPT_PROXYAUTHThe HTTP authentication method(s) to use for the proxy connection. Use the same bitmasks as described in CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH. For proxy authentication, onlyCURLAUTH_BASICandCURLAUTH_NTLMare currently supported.Added in cURL 7.10.7. CURLOPT_PROXYPORTThe port number of the proxy to connect to. This port number can also be set in CURLOPT_PROXY.CURLOPT_PROXYTYPEEither CURLPROXY_HTTP(default) orCURLPROXY_SOCKS5.Added in cURL 7.10. CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLSBitmask of CURLPROTO_*values. If used, this bitmask limits what protocols libcurl may use in a transfer that it follows to in a redirect whenCURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATIONis enabled. This allows you to limit specific transfers to only be allowed to use a subset of protocols in redirections. By default libcurl will allow all protocols except for FILE and SCP. This is a difference compared to pre-7.19.4 versions which unconditionally would follow to all protocols supported. See alsoCURLOPT_PROTOCOLSfor protocol constant values.Added in cURL 7.19.4. CURLOPT_RESUME_FROMThe offset, in bytes, to resume a transfer from. CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST1 to check the existence of a common name in the SSL peer certificate. 2 to check the existence of a common name and also verify that it matches the hostname provided. In production environments the value of this option should be kept at 2 (default value). Support for value 1 removed in cURL 7.28.1 CURLOPT_SSLVERSIONThe SSL version (2 or 3) to use. By default PHP will try to determine this itself, although in some cases this must be set manually. CURLOPT_TIMECONDITIONHow CURLOPT_TIMEVALUEis treated. UseCURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCEto return the page only if it has been modified since the time specified inCURLOPT_TIMEVALUE. If it hasn't been modified, a "304 Not Modified" header will be returned assumingCURLOPT_HEADERisTRUE. UseCURL_TIMECOND_IFUNMODSINCEfor the reverse effect.CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCEis the default.CURLOPT_TIMEOUTThe maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute. CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MSThe maximum number of milliseconds to allow cURL functions to execute. If libcurl is built to use the standard system name resolver, that portion of the connect will still use full-second resolution for timeouts with a minimum timeout allowed of one second. Added in cURL 7.16.2. Available since PHP 5.2.3. CURLOPT_TIMEVALUEThe time in seconds since January 1st, 1970. The time will be used by CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION. By default,CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCEis used.CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGEIf a download exceeds this speed (counted in bytes per second) on cumulative average during the transfer, the transfer will pause to keep the average rate less than or equal to the parameter value. Defaults to unlimited speed. Added in cURL 7.15.5. Available since PHP 5.4.0. CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGEIf an upload exceeds this speed (counted in bytes per second) on cumulative average during the transfer, the transfer will pause to keep the average rate less than or equal to the parameter value. Defaults to unlimited speed. Added in cURL 7.15.5. Available since PHP 5.4.0. CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPESA bitmask consisting of one or more of CURLSSH_AUTH_PUBLICKEY,CURLSSH_AUTH_PASSWORD,CURLSSH_AUTH_HOST,CURLSSH_AUTH_KEYBOARD. Set toCURLSSH_AUTH_ANYto let libcurl pick one.Added in cURL 7.16.1. CURLOPT_IPRESOLVEAllows an application to select what kind of IP addresses to use when resolving host names. This is only interesting when using host names that resolve addresses using more than one version of IP, possible values are CURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER,CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4,CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6, by defaultCURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER.Added in cURL 7.10.8. valueshould be a string for the following values of theoptionparameter:Option Set valuetoNotes CURLOPT_CAINFOThe name of a file holding one or more certificates to verify the peer with. This only makes sense when used in combination with CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.Requires absolute path. CURLOPT_CAPATHA directory that holds multiple CA certificates. Use this option alongside CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.CURLOPT_COOKIEThe contents of the "Cookie: " header to be used in the HTTP request. Note that multiple cookies are separated with a semicolon followed by a space (e.g., "fruit=apple; colour=red") CURLOPT_COOKIEFILEThe name of the file containing the cookie data. The cookie file can be in Netscape format, or just plain HTTP-style headers dumped into a file. If the name is an empty string, no cookies are loaded, but cookie handling is still enabled. CURLOPT_COOKIEJARThe name of a file to save all internal cookies to when the handle is closed, e.g. after a call to curl_close. CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUESTA custom request method to use instead of "GET" or "HEAD" when doing a HTTP request. This is useful for doing "DELETE" or other, more obscure HTTP requests. Valid values are things like "GET", "POST", "CONNECT" and so on; i.e. Do not enter a whole HTTP request line here. For instance, entering "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" would be incorrect.
Note:
Don't do this without making sure the server supports the custom request method first.
CURLOPT_EGDSOCKETLike CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, except a filename to an Entropy Gathering Daemon socket.CURLOPT_ENCODINGThe contents of the "Accept-Encoding: " header. This enables decoding of the response. Supported encodings are "identity", "deflate", and "gzip". If an empty string, "", is set, a header containing all supported encoding types is sent. Added in cURL 7.10. CURLOPT_FTPPORTThe value which will be used to get the IP address to use for the FTP "PORT" instruction. The "PORT" instruction tells the remote server to connect to our specified IP address. The string may be a plain IP address, a hostname, a network interface name (under Unix), or just a plain '-' to use the systems default IP address. CURLOPT_INTERFACEThe name of the outgoing network interface to use. This can be an interface name, an IP address or a host name. CURLOPT_KEYPASSWDThe password required to use the CURLOPT_SSLKEYorCURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILEprivate key.Added in cURL 7.16.1. CURLOPT_KRB4LEVELThe KRB4 (Kerberos 4) security level. Any of the following values (in order from least to most powerful) are valid: "clear", "safe", "confidential", "private".. If the string does not match one of these, "private" is used. Setting this option to NULLwill disable KRB4 security. Currently KRB4 security only works with FTP transactions.CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSThe full data to post in a HTTP "POST" operation. To post a file, prepend a filename with @ and use the full path. The filetype can be explicitly specified by following the filename with the type in the format ';type=mimetype'. This parameter can either be passed as a urlencoded string like 'para1=val1¶2=val2&...' or as an array with the field name as key and field data as value. If valueis an array, the Content-Type header will be set to multipart/form-data. As of PHP 5.2.0,valuemust be an array if files are passed to this option with the @ prefix. As of PHP 5.5.0, the @ prefix is deprecated and files can be sent using CURLFile.CURLOPT_PROXYThe HTTP proxy to tunnel requests through. CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWDA username and password formatted as "[username]:[password]" to use for the connection to the proxy. CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILEA filename to be used to seed the random number generator for SSL. CURLOPT_RANGERange(s) of data to retrieve in the format "X-Y" where X or Y are optional. HTTP transfers also support several intervals, separated with commas in the format "X-Y,N-M". CURLOPT_REFERERThe contents of the "Referer: " header to be used in a HTTP request. CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5A string containing 32 hexadecimal digits. The string should be the MD5 checksum of the remote host's public key, and libcurl will reject the connection to the host unless the md5sums match. This option is only for SCP and SFTP transfers. Added in cURL 7.17.1. CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILEThe file name for your public key. If not used, libcurl defaults to $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub if the HOME environment variable is set, and just "id_dsa.pub" in the current directory if HOME is not set. Added in cURL 7.16.1. CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILEThe file name for your private key. If not used, libcurl defaults to $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa if the HOME environment variable is set, and just "id_dsa" in the current directory if HOME is not set. If the file is password-protected, set the password with CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD.Added in cURL 7.16.1. CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LISTA list of ciphers to use for SSL. For example, RC4-SHA and TLSv1 are valid cipher lists. CURLOPT_SSLCERTThe name of a file containing a PEM formatted certificate. CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWDThe password required to use the CURLOPT_SSLCERTcertificate.CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPEThe format of the certificate. Supported formats are "PEM" (default), "DER", and "ENG". Added in cURL 7.9.3. CURLOPT_SSLENGINEThe identifier for the crypto engine of the private SSL key specified in CURLOPT_SSLKEY.CURLOPT_SSLENGINE_DEFAULTThe identifier for the crypto engine used for asymmetric crypto operations. CURLOPT_SSLKEYThe name of a file containing a private SSL key. CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWDThe secret password needed to use the private SSL key specified in
CURLOPT_SSLKEY.Note:
Since this option contains a sensitive password, remember to keep the PHP script it is contained within safe.
CURLOPT_SSLKEYTYPEThe key type of the private SSL key specified in CURLOPT_SSLKEY. Supported key types are "PEM" (default), "DER", and "ENG".CURLOPT_URLThe URL to fetch. This can also be set when initializing a session with curl_init(). CURLOPT_USERAGENTThe contents of the "User-Agent: " header to be used in a HTTP request. CURLOPT_USERPWDA username and password formatted as "[username]:[password]" to use for the connection. valueshould be an array for the following values of theoptionparameter:Option Set valuetoNotes CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASESAn array of HTTP 200 responses that will be treated as valid responses and not as errors. Added in cURL 7.10.3. CURLOPT_HTTPHEADERAn array of HTTP header fields to set, in the format array('Content-type: text/plain', 'Content-length: 100')CURLOPT_POSTQUOTEAn array of FTP commands to execute on the server after the FTP request has been performed. CURLOPT_QUOTEAn array of FTP commands to execute on the server prior to the FTP request. valueshould be a stream resource (using fopen(), for example) for the following values of theoptionparameter:Option Set valuetoCURLOPT_FILEThe file that the transfer should be written to. The default is STDOUT (the browser window). CURLOPT_INFILEThe file that the transfer should be read from when uploading. CURLOPT_STDERRAn alternative location to output errors to instead of STDERR. CURLOPT_WRITEHEADERThe file that the header part of the transfer is written to. valueshould be the name of a valid function or a Closure for the following values of theoptionparameter:Option Set valuetoCURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTIONA callback accepting two parameters. The first is the cURL resource, the second is a string with the header data to be written. The header data must be written when by this callback. Return the number of bytes written. CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTIONA callback accepting three parameters. The first is the cURL resource, the second is a string containing a password prompt, and the third is the maximum password length. Return the string containing the password. CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTIONA callback accepting five parameters. The first is the cURL resource, the second is the total number of bytes expected to be downloaded in this transfer, the third is the number of bytes downloaded so far, the fourth is the total number of bytes expected to be uploaded in this transfer, and the fifth is the number of bytes uploaded so far.
Note:
The callback is only called when the
CURLOPT_NOPROGRESSoption is set toFALSE.Return a non-zero value to abort the transfer. In which case, the transfer will set a
CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACKerror.CURLOPT_READFUNCTIONA callback accepting three parameters. The first is the cURL resource, the second is a stream resource provided to cURL through the option CURLOPT_INFILE, and the third is the maximum amount of data to be read. The callback must return a string with a length equal or smaller than the amount of data requested, typically by reading it from the passed stream resource. It should return an empty string to signal EOF.CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTIONA callback accepting two parameters. The first is the cURL resource, and the second is a string with the data to be written. The data must be saved by this callback. It must return the exact number of bytes written or the transfer will be aborted with an error. Other values:
Option Set valuetoCURLOPT_SHAREA result of curl_share_init(). Makes the cURL handle to use the data from the shared handle.
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.6.0 |
Removed CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and associated values.
|
| 5.5.0 |
Added the cURL resource as the first argument to the
CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION callback.
|
| 5.5.0 |
Introduced CURLOPT_SHARE.
|
| 5.3.0 |
Introduced CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION.
|
| 5.2.10 |
Introduced CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, and
CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS.
|
| 5.1.0 |
Introduced CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,
CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,
CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH,
CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, and
CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION.
|
| 5.0.0 |
Introduced CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT,
CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL,
CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH,
CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE,
CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH,
CURLOPT_PROXYPORT,
CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE,
CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE, and
CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES.
|
Examples
Example #1 Initializing a new cURL session and fetching a web page
<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>
Example #2 Uploading file
<?php
/* http://localhost/upload.php:
print_r($_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);
?>
The above example will output:
Array
(
[name] => Foo
)
Array
(
[file] => Array
(
[name] => test.png
[type] => image/png
[tmp_name] => /tmp/phpcpjNeQ
[error] => 0
[size] => 279
)
)
Notes
Note:
Passing an array to
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSwill encode the data as multipart/form-data, while passing a URL-encoded string will encode the data as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
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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 ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: text/xml")); ?>
Yann
If you want to Curl to follow redirects and you would also like Curl to echo back any cookies that are set in the process, use this:
<?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '-'); ?>
'-' means stdout
-dw
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).
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);
?>
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) );
?>
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.
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 $result;
?>
in particular this is NECESSARY if you are using PEAR_SOAP libraries to build a webservice client over https and the remote server need to establish a session cookie. in fact each soap message is sent using a different curl session!!
I hope this can help someone
Luca
Sometimes you can't use CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR and CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE becoz of the server php-settings(They say u may grab any files from server using these options). Here is the solution
1)Don't use CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION
2)Use curl_setopt($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, $cookies);
Good Luck, Yevgen
Clarification on the callback methods:
- CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION is for handling header lines received *in the response*,
- CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION is for handling data received *from the response*,
- CURLOPT_READFUNCTION is for handling data passed along *in the request*.
The callback "string" can be any callable function, that includes the array(&$obj, 'someMethodName') format.
-Philippe
Note that if you want to use a proxy and use it as a _cache_, you'll have to do:
<?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Pragma: ")); ?>
else by default Curl puts a "Pragma: no-cache" header in and thus force cache misses for all requests.
If you are trying to use CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION and you get this warning:
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set...
then you will want to read http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php which says "Disabled CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION in curl when open_basedir or safe_mode are enabled." as of PHP 4.4.4/5.1.5. This is due to the fact that curl is not part of PHP and doesn't know the values of open_basedir or safe_mode, so you could comprimise your webserver operating in safe_mode by redirecting (using header('Location: ...')) to "file://" urls, which curl would have gladly retrieved.
Until the curl extension is changed in PHP or curl (if it ever will) to deal with "Location:" headers, here is a far from perfect remake of the curl_exec function that I am using.
Since there's no curl_getopt function equivalent, you'll have to tweak the function to make it work for your specific use. As it is here, it returns the body of the response and not the header. It also doesn't deal with redirection urls with username and passwords in them.
<?php
function curl_redir_exec($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 $data;
}
}
?>
In case you wonder how come, that cookies don't work under Windows, I've googled for some answers, and here is the result: Under WIN you need to input absolute path of the cookie file.
This piece of code solves it:
<?php
if ($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);
}
?>
<?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
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);
}
?>
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($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, 1);
?>
hope it helps ;)
If you are doing a POST, and the content length is 1,025 or greater, then curl exploits a feature of http 1.1: 100 (Continue) Status.
See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.2.3
* it adds a header, "Expect: 100-continue".
* it then sends the request head, waits for a 100 response code, then sends the content
Not all web servers support this though. Various errors are returned depending on the server. If this happens to you, suppress the "Expect" header with this command:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
?>
See http://www.gnegg.ch/2007/02/the-return-of-except-100-continue/
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($ch);
?>
If you want to connect to a server which requires that you identify yourself with a certificate, use following code. Your certificate and servers certificate are signed by an authority whose certificate is in ca.ctr.
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, '1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, '2');
curl_setopt($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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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');
?>
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.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.
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 $body;
}
}
?>
Main issue in existing functions was lack of information, how many redirects was done.
This one will count it.
First parameter as usual.
Second should be already initialized integer, it will be incremented by number of done redirects.
You can set CURLOPT_HEADER if You need it.
PUT requests are very simple, just make sure to specify a content-length header and set post fields as a string.
Example:
<?php
function doPut($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.
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.
write_function must return the exact number of bytes of the string, so you can return a value with mb_strlen.
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);
?>
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);
?>
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 $this->length;
}
?>
Now I did this for a class. If you aren't doing OOP then you will obviously need to modify this for your own use.
CURL calls your script MULTIPLE times because the data will not always be sent all at once. Were talking internet here so its broken up into packets. You need to take your data and concatenate it all together until it is all written. I was about to pull my damn hair out because I would get broken chunks of XML back from the server and at random lengths. I finally figured out what was going on. Hope this helps
It appears that setting CURLOPT_FILE before setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER doesn't work, presumably because CURLOPT_FILE depends on CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER being set.
So do this:
<?php
curl_setopt($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);
?>
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.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.
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);
}
?>
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.
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.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: $data\n";
}
} else {
// Server
sleep(10);
echo "Done.";
}
?>
CURLOPT_POST must be left unset if you want the Content-Type header set to "multipart/form-data" (e.g., when CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is an array). If you set CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to an array and have CURLOPT_POST set to TRUE, Content-Length will be -1 and most sane servers will reject the request. If you set CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to an array and have CURLOPT_POST set to FALSE, cURL will send a GET request.The description of the use of the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option should be emphasize, that using POST with HTTP/1.1 with cURL implies the use of a "Expect: 100-continue" header. Some web servers will not understand the handling of chunked transfer of post data.
To disable this behavior one must disable the use of the "Expect:" header with
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Expect:"));
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, $data);
it will send POST, since CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is latter.
So if you want GET - make sure you don't have CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS specified somewhere.
Note that if you put a certificate chain in a PEM file, the certificates need to be ordered so that each certificate is followed by its issuer (i.e., root last.)
Source: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITIM/SC32-1493-00/en_US/HTML/im451_config09.htm
if you want to do a GET request with additional body data it will become tricky not to implicitly change the request to a POST, like many notes below correctly state.
So to do the analogy of command line's
curl -XGET 'http://example.org?foo=bar' -d '<baz>some additional data</baz>'
in PHP you'll do, besides your other necessary stuff,
<?php
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '<baz>some additional data</baz>');
?>
during my experiments, every other "similar" way, like e.g. CURLOPT_HTTPGET, didn't send the additional data or fell into POST.
If you are trying to update something on your server and you need to handle this update operation by PUT;
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
?>
are "useless" without;
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT'));
?>
Example;
Updating a book data in database identified by "id 1";
--cURL Part--
<?php
$data = http_build_query($_POST);
// or
$data = http_build_query(array(
'name' => 'PHP in Action',
'price' => 10.9
));
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://api.localhost/rest/books/1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT"); // no need anymore
// or
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, 1); // no need anymore
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$ce = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($ce);
?>
--API class--
<?php
public function putAction() {
echo "putAction() -> id: ". $this->_getParam('id') ."\n";
print_r($_POST);
// do stuff with post data
...
?>
--Output--
putAction() -> id: 15
Array
(
[name] => PHP in Action
[price] => 10.9
)
---Keywords--
rest, restfull api, restfull put, curl put, curl customrequest put
I've created an example that gets the file on url passed to script and outputs it to the browser.
<?php
//get the file (e.g. image) and output it to the browser
$ch = curl_init(); //open curl handle
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $_GET['url']); //set an url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //do not output directly, use variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1); //do a binary transfer
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1); //stop if an error occurred
$file=curl_exec($ch); //store the content in variable
if(!curl_errno($ch))
{
//send out headers and output
header ("Content-type: ".curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE)."");
header ("Content-Length: ".curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD)."");
echo $file;
} else echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch); //close curl handle
?>
p.s. Make sure that there're no new lines before and after code or script may not work.
I spent a couple of days trying to POST a multi-dimensional array of form fields, including a file upload, to a remote server to update a product. Here are the breakthroughs that FINALLY allowed the script to run as desired.
Firstly, the HTML form used input names like these:
<input type="text" name="product[name]" />
<input type="text" name="product[cost]" />
<input type="file" name="product[thumbnail]" />
in conjunction with two other form inputs not part of the product array
<input type="text" name="method" value="put" />
<input type="text" name="mode" />
I used several cURL options, but the only two (other than URL) that mattered were:
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
Pretty standard so far.
Note: headers didn't need to be set, cURL automatically sets headers (like content-type: multipart/form-data; content-length...) when you pass an array into CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
Note: even though this is supposed to be a PUT command through an HTTP POST form, no special PUT options needed to be passed natively through cURL. Options such as
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT', 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($fields)));
or
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
or
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT);
were not needed to make the code work.
The fields I wanted to pass through cURL were arranged into an array something like this:
$postfields = array("method" => $_POST["method"],
"mode" => $_POST["mode"],
"product" => array("name" => $_POST["product"],
"cost" => $_POST["product"]["cost"],
"thumbnail" => "@{$_FILES["thumbnail"]["tmp_name"]};type={$_FILES["thumbnail"]["type"]}")
);
-Notice how the @ precedes the temporary filename, this creates a link so PHP will upload/transfer an actual file instead of just the file name, which would happen if the @ isn't included.
-Notice how I forcefully set the mime-type of the file to upload. I was having issues where images filetypes were defaulting to octet-stream instead of image/png or image/jpeg or whatever the type of the selected image.
I then tried passing $postfields straight into curl_setopt($this->handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields); but it didn't work.
I tried using http_build_query($postfields); but that didn't work properly either.
In both cases either the file wouldn't be treated as an actual file and the form data wasn't being sent properly. The problem was HTTP's methods of transmitting arrays. While PHP and other languages can figure out how to handle arrays passed via forms, HTTP isn't quite as sofisticated. I had to rewrite the $postfields array like so:
$postfields = array("method" => $_POST["method"],
"mode" => $_POST["mode"],
"product[name]" => $_POST["product"],
"product[cost]" => $_POST["product"]["cost"],
"product[thumbnail]" => "@{$_FILES["thumbnail"]["tmp_name"]}");
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
This, without the use of http_build_query, solved all of my problems. Now the receiving host outputs both $_POST and $_FILES vars correctly.
Please everyone, stop setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to false or 0. If your PHP installation doesn't have an up-to-date CA root certificate bundle, download the one at the curl website and save it on your server:
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
Then set a path to it in your php.ini file, e.g. on Windows:
curl.cainfo=c:\php\cacert.pem
Turning off CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER allows man in the middle (MITM) attacks, which you don't want!
If you have a mixture of strings starting with @ (at character) and files in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS you have a problem (such as posting a tweet with attached media) because curl tries to interpret anything starting with @ as a file.
<?php
$postfields = array(
'upload_file' => '@file_to_upload.png',
'upload_text' => '@text_to_upload'
);
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/upload-test');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
?>
To get around this, prepend the text string with the NULL character like so:
<?php
$postfields = array(
'upload_file' => '@file_to_upload.png',
'upload_text' => sprintf("\0%s", '@text_to_upload')
);
?>
Original source: http://bit.ly/AntMle
CURLOPT_POST should be set before CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. Otherwise you might encounter 411 Length required error.
Following code generates "411 Length Required" on nginx/1.1.15
<?php
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
?>
But this one works.
<?php
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
?>
Many hosters use PHP safe_mode or/and open_basedir, so you can't use CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION. If you try, you see message like this:
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when safe_mode is enabled or an open_basedir is set in [you script name & path] on line XXX
First, I try to use zsalab function (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php#102121) from this page, but for some reason it did not work properly. So, I wrote my own.
It can be use instead of curl_exec. If server HTTP response codes is 30x, function will forward the request as long as the response is not different from 30x (for example, 200 Ok). Also you can use POST.
function curlExec(/* Array */$curlOptions='', /* Array */$curlHeaders='', /* Array */$postFields='')
{
$newUrl = '';
$maxRedirection = 10;
do
{
if ($maxRedirection<1) die('Error: reached the limit of redirections');
$ch = curl_init();
if (!empty($curlOptions)) curl_setopt_array($ch, $curlOptions);
if (!empty($curlHeaders)) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $curlHeaders);
if (!empty($postFields))
{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFields);
}
if (!empty($newUrl)) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $newUrl); // redirect needed
$curlResult = curl_exec($ch);
$code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($code == 301 || $code == 302 || $code == 303 || $code == 307)
{
preg_match('/Location:(.*?)\n/', $curlResult, $matches);
$newUrl = trim(array_pop($matches));
curl_close($ch);
$maxRedirection--;
continue;
}
else // no more redirection
{
$code = 0;
curl_close($ch);
}
}
while($code);
return $curlResult;
}
If you only want to enable cookie handling and you don't need to save the cookies for a separate session, just set CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE to an empty string. I was given the advice to use php://memory but that did not seem to have the same effect.
Although this is stated in the documentation I thought it was worth reiterating since it cause me so much trouble.
If you use cURL to fetch user-supplied URLs (for instance, in a web-based RSS aggregator), be aware of the risk of server-side request forgery (SSRF). This is an attack where the user takes advantage of the fact that cURL requests are sent from the web server itself, to reach network locations they wouldn't be able to reach from outside the network.
For instance, they could enter a "http://localhost" URL, and access things on the web server via "localhost". Or, "ftp://localhost". cURL supports a lot of protocols!
If you are using CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, the malicious URL could be in a redirect from the original request. cURL also will follow redirect headers to other protocols! (303 See Other; Location: ftp://localhost).
So if you're using cURL with user-supplied URLs, at the very least use CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS (which also sets CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS), and either disable CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION or use the "SafeCurl" library to safely follow redirects.
Please note that if you want to handle progress using CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION option, you need to take into consideration what version of PHP are you using. Since version 5.5.0, compatibility-breaking change was introduced in number/order of the arguments passed to the callback function, and cURL resource is now passed as first argument.
Prior to version 5.5.0:
<?php
// ...
curl_setopt($resource, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, 'progressCallback');
curl_setopt($resource, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, false);
// ...
function progressCallback($download_size = 0, $downloaded = 0, $upload_size = 0, $uploaded = 0)
{
// Handle progress
}
?>
From version 5.5.0:
<?php
// ...
curl_setopt($resource, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, 'progressCallback');
curl_setopt($resource, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, false);
// ...
function progressCallback($resource, $download_size = 0, $downloaded = 0, $upload_size = 0, $uploaded = 0)
{
// Handle progress
}
?>
However, if your code needs to be compatible with PHP version both before and after 5.5.0, consider adding a version check:
<?php
// ...
curl_setopt($resource, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, 'progressCallback');
curl_setopt($resource, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, false);
// ...
function progressCallback($resource, $download_size = 0, $downloaded = 0, $upload_size = 0, $uploaded = 0)
{
/**
* $resource parameter was added in version 5.5.0 breaking backwards compatibility;
* if we are using PHP version lower than 5.5.0, we need to shift the arguments
* @see function.curl-setopt#refsect1-function.curl-setopt-changelog
*/
if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.5.0') < 0) {
$uploaded = $upload_size;
$upload_size = $downloaded;
$downloaded = $download_size;
$download_size = $resource;
}
// Handle progress
}
?>
Please notice that CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT and CURLOPT_VERBOSE option does not work together:"When CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT is set to TRUE than CURLOPT_VERBOSE does not work."(from https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65348).
This took me an hour or two to figure it out.
It is important that anyone working with cURL and PHP keep in mind that not all of the CURLOPT and CURLINFO constants are documented. I always recommend reading the cURL documentation directly as it sometimes contains better information. The cURL API in tends to be fubar as well so do not expect things to be where you would normally logically look for them.
curl is especially difficult to work with when it comes to cookies. So I will talk about what I found with PHP 5.6 and curl 7.26.
If you want to manage cookies in memory without using files including reading, writing and clearing custom cookies then continue reading.
To start with, the way to enable in memory only cookies associated with a cURL handle you should use:
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "");
cURL likes to use magic strings in options as special commands. Rather than having an option to enable the cookie engine in memory it uses a magic string to do that. Although vaguely the documentation here mentions this however most people like me wouldn't even read that because a COOKIEFILE is the complete opposite of what we want.
To get the cookies for a curl handle you can use:
curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_COOKIELIST);
This will give an array containing a string for each cookie. It is tab delimited and unfortunately you will have to parse it yourself if you want to do anything beyond copying the cookies.
To clear the in memory cookies for a cURL handle you can use:
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, "ALL");
This is a magic string. There are others in the cURL documentation. If a magic string isn't used, this field should take a cookie in the same string format as in getinfo for the cookielist constant. This can be used to delete individual cookies although it's not the most elegant API for doing so.
For copying cookies I recommend using curl_share_init.
You can also copy cookies from one handle to another like so:
foreach(curl_getinfo($curl_a, CURLINFO_COOKIELIST) as $cookie_line)
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, $cookie_line);
An inelegant way to delete a cookie would be to skip the one you don't want.
I only recommend using COOKIELIST with magic strings because the cookie format is not secure or stable. You can inject tabs into at least path and name so it becomes impossible to parse reliably. If you must parse this then to keep it secure I recommend prohibiting more than 6 tabs in the content which probably isn't a big loss to most people.
A the absolute minimum for validation I would suggest:
/^([^\t]+\t){5}[^\t]+$/D
Here is the format:
#define SEP "\t" /* Tab separates the fields */
char *my_cookie =
"example.com" /* Hostname */
SEP "FALSE" /* Include subdomains */
SEP "/" /* Path */
SEP "FALSE" /* Secure */
SEP "0" /* Expiry in epoch time format. 0 == Session */
SEP "foo" /* Name */
SEP "bar"; /* Value */
Contrary to the documentation, CURLOPT_STDERR should be set to a handle to the file you want to write to, not the file's location.What is not mentioned in the documentation is that if you want to set a local-port or local-port-range to establish a connection is possible by adding CURLOPT_LOCALPORT and CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE options.
Ex:
$conn=curl_init ('example.com');
curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, 35000);
curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE, 200);
CURLOPT_LOCALPORT: This sets the local port number of the socket used for the connection.
CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE: The range argument is the number of attempts libcurl will make to find a working local port number. It starts with the given CURLOPT_LOCALPORT and adds one to the number for each retry. Setting this option to 1 or below will make libcurl do only one try for the exact port number.
Interface can be also configured using CURLOPT_INTERFACE:
Ex:
curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_INTERFACE, "eth1");
This is howto upload an existing file to an FTP server with cURL in PHP.
You should remember that CURLOPT_URL should contain the file's basename to save on the FTP server. For example, if you upload hello.txt to ftp://www.wuxiancheng.cn/text/, CURLOPT_URL should be ftp://www.wuxiancheng.cn/text/hello.txt rather than ftp://www.wuxiancheng.cn/text/, otherwise you will get an error message like "Uploading to a URL without a file name! " when you call curl_error();
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$filepath = 'D:\Web\www\wuxiancheng.cn\hello.txt';
$basename = pathInfo($filepath, PATHINFO_BASENAME);
$filesize = fileSize($filepath);
curl_setopt_array(
$ch,
array(
CURLOPT_URL => 'ftp://www.wuxiancheng.cn/text/' . $basename,
CURLOPT_USERPWD => 'USERNAME:PASSWORD',
CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS => CURLPROTO_FTP,
CURLOPT_UPLOAD => true,
CURLOPT_INFILE => $filepath,
CURLOPT_INFILESIZE => $filesize,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
)
);
curl_exec($ch);
$message = curl_errno($ch) === CURLE_OK ? 'success' : 'failure';
echo $message;
?>
In the long documentation, it's easy to miss the fact that CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will set the Content-Type to "multipart/form-data" (instead of the usual "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") IFF you supply an array (instead of a query string)!
Some servers will return weird errors (like "SSL read: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), errno 104") for the wrong Content-Type, and you may waste many hours of time trying to figure out why!
When you get this error using a PUT request: "SSL read: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), errno 104")
It could be caused by:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, TRUE);
?>
Instead try:
<?php
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
?>
As the "example #2 Uploading file" says it is deprecated as of PHP 5.5.0 but doesn't tell you how it's done right,
here is a really easy example using the CURLFile class:
<?php
$request = [
'firstName' => 'John',
'lastName' => 'Doe',
'file' => new CURLFile('example.txt', 'text/plain') // or use curl_file_create()
];
$curlOptions = [
CURLOPT_URL => 'http://example.com/upload.php',
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $request,
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, $curlOptions);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
?>
This is just like posting a html form with an input[type=file] field.
The result on windows could look like this:
<?php
// $_POST
Array
(
[firstName] => John
[lastName] => Doe
)
// $_FILES
Array
(
[file] => Array
(
[name] => example.txt
[type] => text/plain
[tmp_name] => C:\wamp64\tmp\php3016.tmp
[error] => 0
[size] => 14
)
)
?>
Since the request is an array (and not a string), curl will automatically encode the data as "multipart/form-data".
Please be aware that if you pass an invalid file path to CURLFile, setting the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option will fail.
So if you are using curl_setopt_array for setting the options at once, according to the manual, "If an option could not be successfully set, FALSE is immediately returned, ignoring any future options in the options array.".
So you should make sure that the file exists or set CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS with curl_setopt() and check if it returns false and act accordingly.
Set order when using CURLOPT_POST and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS *matters*.
Setting CURL_POST to true will ERASE any previous CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS using an array. Result is request be a POST with empty body.
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will set CURLOPT_POST to true for you, no need for repeat.
If you really need to set both, then either:
- set CURLOPT_POST *before* CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
- or don't use array and convert CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to URL-encoded string, it will not be affected this way (ie. <?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($yourArray)); ?> )
If you want cURL to successfully write cookies to a file specified with CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, ensure that cURL has the necessary permissions to modify the file if it already exists.
I spent nearly a day trying to understand why cURL wasn't saving cookies to an existing file, even though I could easily modify the exact same file using file_put_contents(). Moreover, cURL itself could create the same file and save cookies, but only if it didn't previously exist.
Ultimately, the issue was related to file ownership. I was working within WSL2, inside a symlinked Windows directory. The [automount]"metadata" in wsl.conf was not set, causing every file created from PHP to have the default owner, which differed from the user running PHP.
Once I configured wsl.conf and then changed the ownership of the entire directory to match the user running PHP, cookies were successfully written to any file without any issues.