getting a bad request response when doing a curl call - php

Question

I am receiving a bad request from the server when I make a curl request. Not sure where I went wrong, but it looks like that some of the CURLOPT options are incorrect. Do you have any idea what needs to be changed?
This is the code:
$url = "https://order.pizzahut.com/site/ajax/find_nearby";
$ch = curl_init($url);
$useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3'; // Setting useragent of a popular browser
$header = array("Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*");
$options = [
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $useragent,
CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION => true,
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => "cookie.txt",
CURLOPT_REFERER =>"https://www.google.com",
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST=>"POST",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER =>$header
];
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
loadPage("AK", "ANCHORAGE",$ch);
function loadPage($abbreviation,$city,$ch){
global $conn;
$city = strtolower($city);
$near = "$city,"."$abbreviation";
echo $near;
$postData = [
'occasion' => "C",
'near' => "$near",
'zip' => "$near",
'address' => "",
'dine_in' => false,
'store_limit' =>"10",
'locator' =>true
];
$payload = json_encode($postData);
# Convert the post data array to URL encoded string
// $postDataStr = http_build_query($postData);
echo $payload;
$options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = $payload;
$html = curl_exec($ch);
echo $html;
}

Answer 1

yes you are right, its post request only issue with header it requires valid Cookie in header. I just copied Cookie from browser and paste in header and its works. So the solution is:
loadPage("AK", "ANCHORAGE");
function loadPage($abbreviation,$city){
$city = strtolower($city);
$near = "$city,"."$abbreviation";
$postData = [
'occasion' => "C",
'near' => "$near",
'zip' => "$near",
'address' => "",
'dine_in' => false,
'store_limit' =>"10",
'locator' =>true
];
$url = "https://order.pizzahut.com/site/ajax/find_nearby";
$ch = curl_init($url);
$useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3'; // Setting useragent of a popular browser
$header = array(
"Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*",
"Cookie: failover_checked=1; PHPpoolSSL=!4maklee1+k5+tBLWWPR8rI/3M2NcIXVsgM+5XMIVRK/fJJleEnP4hyVoopcRquvCAs/7CbLq/Vfd0cc=; TS011d6839=01166f2bd0e693828ed3fb37eef086402c5626aca6908460b9722b154cb51f244b1dd882278db1bb1f9ac97a3f2d3617b12e7c7b5c; www-origin=yeti-HR-HARYANA-; www-origin-reset=1; exp_last_visit=1143192473; optimizelyEndUserId=oeu1458555784471r0.9519811202417545; _gat_UA-34361514-1=1; QOSESSID=6ohua5ugd55mjupf0p6k32uia6; _dc_gtm_UA-34361514-1=1; exp_last_activity=1458560242; exp_tracker=a%3A5%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A12%3A%22site%2Flocator%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bs%3A4%3A%22home%22%3Bi%3A2%3Bs%3A5%3A%22index%22%3Bi%3A3%3Bs%3A23%3A%22site%2Fajax%2Fclear_session%22%3Bi%3A4%3Bs%3A38%3A%22site%2Fajax%2Fcoupons%2FremoveNationalCoupon%22%3B%7D; TS01bded03=01166f2bd034b629d99e25089af83586e4bf2347f7b1f70b91972e835cfd37e486120c510cfabe2bd9856390632a8276d8250ae05869b06cc1d6a7bc77ee826c8b208bc7361686c0b1cbd41a8530948d8fa923b0b3; TS0118ed69=01166f2bd0c9a8c11fd75a87aad59a90e93a811cbea110792544f73601f99f85ef0de952c0bb1c1706650ace601420df60560355a33fa2ecea9f8f89e1fdd807c0f5717ab8fe2b84c6305f1add271e312787310fa30c484c0174c988835bcea2ced9db5fcf; optimizelySegments=%7B%22209642986%22%3A%22referral%22%2C%22209669694%22%3A%22gc%22%2C%22209692476%22%3A%22false%22%2C%22209740042%22%3A%22none%22%2C%22307825635%22%3A%22true%22%7D; optimizelyBuckets=%7B%7D; _ga=GA1.2.700288496.1458555787; optimizelyPendingLogEvents=%5B%5D"
);
$options = [
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $useragent,
CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION => true,
// CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => "cookie.txt",
// CURLOPT_REFERER =>"https://www.google.com",
CURLOPT_POST=>true,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER =>$header
];
// $payload = json_encode($postData);
$options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = http_build_query($postData);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
echo $html;
}
Output
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G","city":"Anchorage","state":"AK","zip":"99504","country":"US","phone":"[phone]","lat":61.220935,"long":-149.777626,"distance":2.7,"StoreNumber":"008615","OnlineOrdering":true,"WingStreet":true,"Buffet":false,"DineIn":false},{"address":"3727 Spenard Highway","city":"Anchorage","state":"AK","zip":"99517","country":"US","phone":"[phone]","lat":61.186142,"long":-149.914382,"distance":2.86,"StoreNumber":"010576","OnlineOrdering":true,"WingStreet":true,"Buffet":false,"DineIn":false},{"address":"1921 W Dimond Blvd Ste 112","city":"Anchorage","state":"AK","zip":"99515","country":"US","phone":"[phone]","lat":61.139149,"long":-149.915007,"distance":5.74,"StoreNumber":"009150","OnlineOrdering":true,"WingStreet":true,"Buffet":false,"DineIn":false},{"address":"12870 Old Seward 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Answer 2

First you are setting curl options with $options without CURLOPT_POSTFILEDS and then you set $options CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS within loadPage function, but those new options are not passed to curl handler by curl_setopt_array();
use curl_setopt_array just after
$options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = $payload;