Is it possible to do a cURL request with the PUT method using only a URL? Here is the URL i would like to be able to call using cURL with the PUT method:
$url = https://url.net/card/activate.xml?card_id=1234567890&application_key=123123&accesskey=abcdef
I was able to make it work using the REST Console(Chrome Extension) but not using cURL. I tried using curl_setopt with CURLOPT_PUT, CURLOPT_INFILE and CURLOPT_INFILESIZE but I was receiving an empty page, no response at all.
This is the headers and curl options I currently have:
$header[] = 'Authorization: Basic abc123';
$header[] = 'Accept: text/xml';
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec($soap_do);
Currently, with those settings, I'm getting the 411 Length Required error. Would it be possible to make it work like that or am I trying to configure something that will never work?
The HTTP 411 Error
The Web server (running the Web site) thinks that the HTTP data stream sent by the client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) should include a 'Content-Length' specification. This is typically used only for HTTP methods that result in the placement of data on the Web server, not the retrieval of data from it.
You need to set the Content Length of your Data
$header[] = 'Content-length: '.strlen($put_data);
OR If you don't have any data, just put 0 there.
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Im trying to integrate 3rd part API in PHP curl.
It is working fine and got the response when I tried in postman. But it is not working in my PHP CURL code.
I find the there is JSESSIONID is set in header in postman. I don't know how to create that JSESSIONID in php curl and set in cookies.
Anyone know about this?
PHP code
$url = "http://website.com/Public/login/";
$dataa["userNo"] = "username";
$dataa["userPassword"] = "password";
$data = json_encode($dataa);
$ch = curl_init($url);
$headers = array(
'Content-type: application/json',
"Cookie: JSESSIONID=2cba2d9d7dc5455b76t90f4ccac3; httpOnly"
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// Instruct cURL to store cookies in this file.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt');
// Instruct cURL to read this file when asked about cookies.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies.txt');
$response1 = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$res = json_decode($response1,true);
The URL you're accessing is trying to set cookies.
To accept cookies with cURL, you'll need to specify a "cookie jar", a file where cURL can store the cookies it receives:
// Instruct cURL to store cookies it receives in this file.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '/tmp/cookies.txt');
// Instruct cURL to read this file when asked about cookies.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, '/tmp/cookies.txt');
JSESSIONID sounds like a "session ID" cookie, something that keeps track of a session, or a series of requests. The session ID 2cba2d9d7dc5455b76t90f4ccac3 is tied to the session you started with Postman, you'll need to remove that from your PHP request.
I am trying to make a call from my Laravel application to the Bullhorn API to convert a document to HTML, but it looks like the file isn't being attached to the call. Below is my code:
$data = curl_file_create("full/path/to/file.docx", 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document', 'testcv');
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
However I receive the following 500 error:
Bad File Uploaded: the request doesn't contain a multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed stream, content type header is application/x-www-form-urlencoded
When I try to set the Content-Type explicitly:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: multipart/form-data'
));
I still receive a 500 error, just slightly different:
Bad File Uploaded: the request was rejected because no multipart boundary was found
I don't believe it's an issue with the Bullhorn API because executing the following call through the command line works fine:
curl -X POST "https://restXXX.bullhornstaffing.com/rest-services/{corptoken}/resume/convertToHtml?format=docx&BhRestToken={bhRestToken}" -F "file=#full\path\to\file.docx"
I assume that for some reason the file isn't being attached in my PHP call but I cannot figure out why.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The content-type: multipart/form-data uses boundary parameter for encapsulation, you can pass the boundary value as a string
'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------7da24f2e50046'
Boundary is a string of "--" followed by a random string.
https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html
If I ever have any weird problems with requests, I always put the request into postman and test it there since it compiles most of the headers and options for you, then just hit the code button on the top right to generate code in whatever language you want.
For your case you could datadump (dd) out your $data variable and copy it into one of the postman fields then set the url as well as the request type then run it and see what you get back.
Just a suggestion on how to debug a problem like this, hope it helps! good luck!
I'm trying to send some data to a custom built API that was built by a web development agency. The api is pretty straight forward, and all that I require to do is authorise myself with an authorisation basic header and submit a payload which is just JSON data.
The problem is that the API is responding with 403 every time I send a POST request using cURL. Is there any way that my code could be causing this? or is it an error that is caused by the API/API server? Regardless if the JSON payload is correctly formatted or not, it should still return with a 200 response.
The request is pretty straight forward -
<?php
//I've removed the actual username and password
$headers = array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Authorization: Basic '.base64_encode('username:password'));
$empty_array = array();
//Create empty json as an example
$json = json_encode($empty_array);
$url = "https://website.com/import";
//start cURL
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
$json);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$httpcode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
If I take out the POST data, then it will return with a 404 response. This is the correct behaviour if there is no POST data submitted to the url. (I get a 404 if I navigate to the url via a browser). So I have a theory that the server must have some kind of restrictions on accepting POST data.
Does my code seem correct or am I missing something glaringly obvious? I wan't to rule out that it's a problem caused by my end due to not being able to access the code/server for the API as that is beyond my control.
Here's the situation. On one side, we have a server, with a RESTful service. One possible query to it is a POST query to create an object. When that is done, the server returns a 'Location' header, to indicate where information on the newly created object can be found.
However, said server is anal about having the correct Content-Type for each request. For instance, POST requires 'application/json', and GET requires this to be unset (make sense, since GET doesn't have a body).
To sum up, we have:
www.example.com/articles/ ; one can send a POST request with 'Content-Type: application/json', and server will return 'Location: www.example.com/articles/123' if 123 is the id of the new object ;
www.example.com/articles/123 ; one can send a GET request with no 'Content-Type' and server will return a description of the new article object.
On client side, we use PHP with cURL. We use the CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATIONsetting so we can read the description of the newly created object. Obviously, we also set 'Content-Type: application/json' for our POST request:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '{"name": "test"}');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.example.com/Articles/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($result);
curl_close ($ch);
?>
This is what we get:
string(101) "{ "errorNo": 415, "error": "Unsupported Media Type Content-Type should not be set in a GET request" }"
I looked at the log of the server, and indeed, 'Content-Type: application/json' is sent to GET www.example.com/articles/123.
Is this an expected behaviour?
If yes, what is then best approach:
remove the 'Content-Type' check on GET requests, server-side?
(sounds silly)
forget about CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, and make 2 clearly separated curl requests, so I have control over the headers? (but then what's the point of CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION?)
something else?
For control and testing, I also use Postman, and I have no problem with it, it follows the location, doesn't send the 'Content-Type' on the GET part (apparently) after the redirection and so I don't have an error.
EDIT:
There seems to be nothing useful in the PHP doc. But I found something interesting in the command line man page:
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
It says:
"WARNING: headers set with this option will be set in all requests - even after redirects are followed, like when told with -L, --location."
So I guess it probably is the expected behaviour for PHP too. May someone suggest best practices then?
Have you tried using
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
to set the post type
I am trying to read the response (json text) from server. But the server returns the response as a file which gets downloaded in my downloads directory.
url:-https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread?query=%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22type%22%3A%22%5C%2Fastronomy%5C%2Fplanet%22%7D%5D
I am using curl in my php code.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Connection: Keep-Alive'
));
$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
curl_close($ch);
How can I read the data using php curl?
UPDATE: When I try to run the same code in online editors like http://phpassist.com/ then it reads the data and shows me the required output.
So is there any additional configuration I need to make in XAMPP??
Tks
You need disable ssl certification or get ssl certification, the fastest way is:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);