I have Interspire(email marketing) installed on my server. API calls can be sent to a php file that handles xml requests. I am using curl to send the request and it looks like this
$ch = curl_init($this->api_endpoint);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
$result = #curl_exec($ch);
return $result;
$this->api_endpoint is a url that points to the php file that handles the xml request.
I am trying to make the whole thing work faster and I thought if I didn't have to sent the request out to the internet and back maybe I could save some time, but I am not sure if it is possible to send the request "locally"... I'd like to possibly have $this->api_endpoint equivalent to ../../xml.php I have actually tried this, but it doesn't work. Can an API call be handled within a server and not need to be sent out to the internet to work?
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I currently have a Laravel application, which is doing a CURL request from one route to another route within the same route. My CURL looks like this:
//LOGGING THAT A CURL CALL IS ABOUT TO BE MADE
$url = env('APP_URL') . '/tests/add/results';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //return server error
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $test_post_data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
In the route, that the POST is being sent to, the first thing i log, is the request data:
//LOGING THAT I RECEIVED THE CURL CALL in receiving function
I'm noticing, that the logs for the request data get logged exactly the same amount of time as the timeout, meaning the request is actually being sent 10 seconds after the initial call.
In my logs i'll see something like:
10:10:10 - LOGGING CURL CALL
10:10:20 - Recieving CURL call
If i change the timeout to 30, then the log shows 30 seconds later that i received the CURL call.
Does anyone have any idea why this may be happening?
The response from the CURL just comes back as false always.
I did the following to make a post request work:
Instead of calling the route via CURL i did a post directly to the route function
$testController = new TestsController;
$test_data_request = new \Illuminate\Http\Request();
$test_data_request->setMethod('POST');
$test_data_request->request->add( $test_post_data );
$testId = $testController->addTestResults($test_data_request);
You've not provided enough information, but i think, the problem will be one or more of the following:
The WebServer http://127.0.0.1:8000 is not running
The script located on http://127.0.0.1:8000/tests/add/results is running too long and the request timeouts before it is completed
The requested path is returning redirect headers and creates an infinite loop
The response is too big to finish the data transfer in thirty seconds (very wierd if on localhost)
Try some more debugging and provide more information on this, so we may help you.
PS: Firstly i would try to catch the headers (curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);) and print out the response (var_dump($response);) - or save it to some file :)
I have a cURL request in my code which works fine when running locally:
$url = "http://ipinfo.io/{$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']}";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$locale = json_decode($response);
and returns a JSON as expected. Our production system is on Google App Engine, however, where I get the website version for a browser rather than the JSON.
I can get this cURL request to work if I change
google_app_engine.enable_curl_lite = "1"
in the php.ini in the root directory of my project to
extension = "curl.so"
but Google's documentation insists the former is to be used on production. Additionally, using the latter breaks things like Monolog's SlackHandler.
Is there a way to get the JSON from this cURL request while still using Google's "cURL Lite"?
From the ipinfo.io documentation:
"We do a little bit of magic on the server to determine if we should send the JSON response or the webpage. We usually get it right, but if you're seeing the webpage instead of the JSON (or want to check the JSON output in a browser) you can force the JSON response by adding /json to the end of the URL"
Adding /json to the end of the URL worked for me in this case, but I wanted a more general solution. Since Google's cURL Lite uses their URL Fetch in the background, ipinfo.io's "magic" is somehow getting confused. I found that by specifying the Accept header then the /json addition wasn't required. In PHP:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Accept: application/json'));
Thanks to the folks on the #php channel of NashDev Slack for helping me on this one!
I am trying to use the Qualys API v2 to get an xml host list returned. I think you must use cURL, but I am unfamiliar with it. Here is my code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://qualysapi.qualys.com/api/2.0/fo/asset/host/?action=list&details=Basic");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-Requested-With: Manitowoc Service Account'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close();
$hostobj = simplexml_load_string($xml);
Actually, curl is not required for QualysGuard API calls. As long as you can make https calls you can use any method you would like. But curl is a nice framework because everything is already implemented (with perl, another alternative would be LWP).
I have not been able to find the issue with your code, but I posted a perl script that launches and downloads a Qualys report by making API requests "using WWW::Curl::Easy": https://community.qualys.com/docs/DOC-3222
I hope it could help you to write your own perl API request with libcurl.
I see nothing wrong with your code, but of course we can't see what values you are using for the username and password, and whether those credentials actually exist in QualysGuard.
To get status/error information from curl for a given request, use curl_getinfo(), curl_error(), and curl_errno() as described in the cURL Manual.
I would like to crab data from a website that uses an ajax request to load new data from the server into a DIV.
When I click on the button of the website, that will load new data into the website, I can see that the browser does only 1 POST request with the following post string:
AJAXREQUEST=_viewRoot&j_id376=j_id376&javax.faces.ViewState=j_id3&j_id376%3Aj_id382=j_id376%3Aj_id382&valueChanged=false&AJAX%3AEVENTS_COUNT=1&
When I do the above post request using php curl I don't get any useful data.
Does someone know how to crab data for this kind of request?
UPDATE1:
This is what I use in php:
$ch = curl_init ('http://www.website.com');
$post_string = 'AJAXREQUEST=_viewRoot&j_id376=j_id376&javax.faces.ViewState=j_id3&j_id376%3Aj_id382=j_id376%3Aj_id382&valueChanged=false&AJAX%3AEVENTS_COUNT=1&';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ckfile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);
I don't get any results, also no errors or messages.
Your problem probably isn't with your PHP code, its more likely with what you are actually sending to the server. I'm assuming you listed website.com as a place holder for whatever service you are trying to interact with, but since you haven't listed any of the information as to where your sending the request or what your getting back I'm assuming that what your posting to the server is simply being ignored because what your sending is invalid, or incomplete, or requires further POST/GET requests. Another possibility is that your attempting to POST to a service that requires an authenticated session (the POST variables you listed could include some sort of token to identify the session) which you have not established.
I would recommend that you first test your code on a simpler "controlled test case". Setup a basic web form that returns true or something when you POST a value to it. Test your code with the simpler case first to make sure your POST code works.
Then using a debugging tool such as LiveHTTPHeaders or Firebug record the entire POST/GET request interaction with the server. It might be a good idea to first try to "replay" this interaction with a debugging tool to prove that your methodology works. Then once you know exactly what you need to do from a high level, repeat this process in your PHP code.
There is not much other advice anyone can give you with the information you have given us.
I've been banging my head against a wall for a few hours now - and it's probably something really obvious I've missed!
I'm trying to connect to a payment service provider (PSP) using CURL, post data and follow the post so the user actually ends up on the PSP's site.
Using the following:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://psp.com/theirpage');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://mysite.com/mypage");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$params);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
This successfully connects, verifies the data I've passed, but instead of redirecting the user to the PSP, it just loads the HTML on my site. Safe mode is off, and open_basedir is blank.
What am I doing wrong?
CURL would do an internal redirect and it wont have any effect on the user viewing your curl script. Keep in mind that the payment was made by your server NOT the users computer, hence expecting the session to work for the user is incorrect. cURL 'is the browser'.
If you just want a redirect after payment is made via cURL, you will have to do it via header() or by using some JS like window.location.
The curl request is being made from your server, and as such your server is receiving the response page. There's no way to initiate the request from the server and have the client receive the response. Either return the HTML to the user from your site (as you're doing), or make the request from the client's browser using Javascript. Hope that helps