I'm integrating with a 3rd party's API, I have to POST some XML and I get some XML back.
On the CLI this works, I get a positive response.
curl -X POST -d #/tmp/file http://url/to/endpoint --header "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
This, however, does not work, the response contains an error telling me my that my request XML is invalid.
$ch = curl_init();
$post = array(
'file' => '#/tmp/file'
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://url/to/endpoint');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
$this->responseBody = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
It's the same file in both cases and it's on the same server. the file is just plain text XML. The only difference that I can see is that I'm specifying a fieldname in my HTTP headers on the PHP version.
How do I send that file over using PHP to exactly replicate the CLI version, e.g. without the formdata/fieldname bit?
FWIW I can't go back to the developer of the API for a few days to ask what he's defining as 'bad XML'
Try passing the file as raw data, not in an array, by for example using file_get_contents().
So instead of:
$post = array('file' => '#/tmp/file');
Like this:
$post = file_get_contents('#/tmp/file');
Related
I use Stanford NLP local server by a curl call of
curl --data "this is a test" http://localhost:9001/?properties={%22prettyPrint%22%3A%22true%22}
and everything works perfectly. When I try to use the equivalent curl command in PHP as
$ch = curl_init('http://localhost:9001/?properties={%22prettyPrint%22%3A%22true%22}');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'this is a test');
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
var_dump($response);
I get an error of
string(49) "<h1>400 Bad Request</h1>URISyntaxException thrown"
I reckon the problem is the format of POSTFIELDS, but still no luck after trying different variations of an array.
You need to tell curl to do a regular post. Just add this line before CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS assigment:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
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 implement the AAA Cooper Freight's SOAP API via PHP.
When I send XML request to http://wsportal.aaacooper.com:8188/wsportal20/wsGenEst, it via Postman, works fine, but when using CURL, it doesn't return anything
I use the direct url(from the wsdl file), because their WSDL file seems to be broken and its not working with it:
http://wsportal.aaacooper.com:8188/wsGenRateEstimate.wsdl
Here is screenshot from Postman(Working!)
and my php code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://wsportal.aaacooper.com:8188/wsportal20/wsGenEst" );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $input_xml );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1'));
$data = curl_exec($ch);
print_r($data);
curl_close($ch);
I'm using same XML string on both places.
Postman can generate the PHP code for any given request using the Code button on the top right corner of the screen. A demonstration of this feature can be seen in the image below.
I'm new to XML, and usually use JSON to pass data. I am working with a new system, and this was part of their instructions to me about passing data:
The XML content then can be sent as either PAYLOAD on the stream or as an additional parameter. If the latter is done, the parameter name is RequestXML
I'm not sure what this means? I'm afraid if I pass it as a parameter, but I have a lot of text, it will make the URL too long, so I'd like to do the PAYLOAD option. I'm using PHP and Jquery to generate the array. I can create an XML file using PHP and have it properly formatted as XML, but sending it across is confusing me.
What do I need to do to get it sent as a PAYLOAD?
You'll likely just want to send a POST HTTP request. Here's an example using the curl library:
<?php
$url = "https://example.com/service";
$xml = "<foo />";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>
I use the following command in some old scripts:
curl -Lk "https:www.example.com/stuff/api.php?"
I then record the header into a variable and make comparisons and so forth. What I would really like to do is convert the process to PHP. I have enabled curl, openssl, and believe I have everything ready.
What I cannot seem to find is a handy translation to convert that command line syntax to the equivalent commands in PHP.
I suspect something in the order of :
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// What goes here so that I just get the Location and nothing else?
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Get the response and close the channel.
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
The goal being $response = the data from the api “OK=1&ect”
Thank you
I'm a little confused by your comment:
// What goes here so that I just get the Location and nothing else?
Anyway, if you want to obtain the response body from the remote server, use:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
If you want to get the headers in the response (i.e.: what your comment might be referring to):
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
If your problem is that there is a redirection between the initial call and the response, use:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);