Sending auth in headers php curl - php

Question

trying to do the equivalent of this in PHP - and failing :):
curl -H "X-abc-AUTH: 123456789" http://APIserviceProvider=http://www.cnn.com;
"123456789" is the API key. The command line statement works fine.
PHP code (does not work):
$urlToGet = "http://www.cnn.com";
$service_url = "http://APIserviceProvider=$urlToGet";
//header
$contentType = 'text/xml'; //probably not needed
$method = 'POST'; //probably not needed
$auth = 'X-abc-AUTH: 123456789'; //API Key
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $service_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
//does not work
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array('Content-type: ' .
// $contentType . '; auth=' . $auth));
//works! (THANKS #Fratyr for the clue):
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array($auth));
//this works too (THANKS #sergiocruz):
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Some_custom_header: 0',
'Another_custom_header: 143444,12'
));
//exec
$data = curl_exec($ch);
echo $data;
curl_close($ch);
Any ideas?

Answer 1

In order to get custom headers into your curl you should do something like the following:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Some_custom_header: 0',
'Another_custom_header: 143444,12'
));
Therefore the following should work in your case (given X-abc-AUTH is the only header you need to send over):
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'X-abc-AUTH: 123456789' // you can replace this with your $auth variable
));
If you need additional custom headers, all you have to do is add on to the array within the curl_setopt.
I hope this helps :)

Answer 2

Use the following Syntax
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.example.com/process.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$vars); //Post Fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'X-abc-AUTH: 123456789';
$headers[] = 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8';
$headers[] = 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate';
$headers[] = 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5';
$headers[] = 'Cache-Control: no-cache';
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8';
$headers[] = 'Host: 202.71.152.126';
$headers[] = 'Referer: http://www.example.com/index.php'; //Your referrer address
$headers[] = 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0';
$headers[] = 'X-MicrosoftAjax: Delta=true';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print $server_output ;

Answer 3

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'auth=' . $auth
));

Answer 4

You set only one request header, not the two you wanted. You could do it for example like this:
// input
$urlToGet = "http://www.cnn.com";
// url
$service_url = sprintf("http://APIserviceProvider=%s", urlencode($urlToGet));
//header
$contentType = 'Content-type: text/xml'; //probably not needed
$auth = 'X-abc-AUTH: 123456789'; //API Key
$method = 'POST'; //probably not needed
// curl init
$ch = curl_init($service_url);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
$contentType,
$auth,
],
]);
// curl exec
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// output
echo $data;
(change the service url to the right one to get this to work)