php file get contents with post data [duplicate] - php

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Drupal login via Rest server
I have been using this code for file get contents with post data but receiving an error
Warning: file_get_contents(http://50.116.19.49/rest/user/login.json): failed to open
stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 406 Not Acceptable: Unsupported request content type
application/x-www-form-urlencoded in C:\xampp\htdocs\post.php on line 20
My code is
<?php
$postdata = http_build_query(
array(
'var1' => 'myuser',
'var2' => 'pwd'
)
);
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $postdata
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$result = file_get_contents('http://50.116.19.49/rest/user/login.json', false,
$context);
?>
Can anybody help in this Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

we can use curl instead of function file_get_contents($request);
Here is the code of curl :
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
$xml_response = curl_exec($ch);
where $request is your url.

Answer 2

This particular server, as it seems, expects to see JSON in the POST data when you call /login.json, so you should rewrite a few things in your code.
Change the $postdata construction:
$postdata = json_encode(array(
'var1' => 'myuser',
'var2' => 'pwd'
));
Change the Content-Type header:
$opts = array('http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-type: application/json',
'content' => $postdata
));

Answer 3

file_get_contents returns FALSE on error with the HTTP stream wrapper as well. An error means any error condition with the HTTP response, for example a HTTP status code from the 400 range like 406 Not Acceptable: Unsupported request content type in your case.
You can disable the "FALSE on Error" behavior by setting the ignore_errorsHTTP context option to TRUE:
'ignore_errors' = TRUE,
You will then get the response body of the request as the result in error cases, too.
To obtain the status code itself you can make use of the special $http_response_header variable.
For a discussion of these settings and how to parse response headers, please see HEAD first with PHP Streams. However in your case the response body might already contain more information about the problem.
In your specific problem you need to double check that the encoding of the request is supported by the server. As I don't know your server, I can not say much about that. The reference to the error code might shed some light for you. There seems to be a problem with the Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded you are using.
For example as other clever folks on this site have told me, that endpoint is Drupal. If so, the following was suggested in a similar question:
You have to enable application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type of your service endpoint.
Do as follows: Services -> Edit Resources -> select tab "Server" -> enable "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and that's it.
Hopefully this is of help to you.