curl with post method - php

Question

salam
i want to get some xml responses from a server
but this server accept only xml request
i have this example of code
<?php
$url = "http://www.pj.ma/phonexmlfeeds";
$post_string = '<?xml version="1.0 encoding="UTF-8" ?><search_requests> <search_request id="req1"><content>statut=1 AND linguistic_expansion2(lingex_qui_quoi,1,0,"qui_quoi","Restaurant",LIN_EXACT|LIN_LEM0|LIN_LEM1|LIN_LEM2|LIN_SYN1|LIN_SYN2|LIN_PHO1|LIN_ORT)</content><code>sortBy(casanet_perfect(lingex_qui_quoi));filterBy(casanet_perfect_filter(lingex_qui_quoi));setSortAttribute(indice,sortDirection,sortDirectionDesc);sortBy(indice,score2(lingex_qui_quoi,lingex_ou,matrice), ordered(lingex_qui_quoi),ordered(lingex_ou),rs);catalogBy(libniv3);sendxref(rs);sendxref(crs);sendxref(nomcomm);sendxref(activite);sendxref(libniv3);sendxref(villep);sendxref(adrp);sendxref(nomvoie);sendxref(numtel_typetel);sendxref(internet);sendxref(pub);sendxref(marque);sendXrefHighlights();</code><options><option name="maxFiles">10</option><option name="startFiles">11</option><option name="highlight_zone_start">{match}</option><option name="highlight_zone_end">{/match}</option></options><metadata><meta name="base">Pages Jaunes</meta></metadata></search_request></search_requests>';
$header = "POST /phonexmlfeeds HTTP/1.1";
$header = "Connection: close";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/xml";
$header .= "User-Agent: Dalvik/1.4.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; GT-S5830 Build/GINGERBREAD)";
$header .= "Host: www.pj.ma";
$header .= "Content-Length: 1053";
$header .= "Accept-Encoding: gzip";
$header .= $post_string;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $header);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_errno($ch))
print curl_error($ch);
else
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;
?>
but it give this response
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
here i post a example of request captured by wifisnifer
POST /phonexmlfeeds HTTP/1.1 Connection: close Content-Type: text/xml
User-Agent: Dalvik/1.4.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; GT-S5830
Build/GINGERBREAD) Host: www.pj.ma Content-Length: 1052
Accept-Encoding: gzip
<?xml version="1.0 encoding="UTF-8" ?><search_requests> <search_request id="req1"><content>statut=1 AND linguistic_expansion2(lingex_qui_quoi,1,0,"qui_quoi","Restaurant",LIN_EXACT|LIN_LEM0|LIN_LEM1|LIN_LEM2|LIN_SYN1|LIN_SYN2|LIN_PHO1|LIN_ORT)</content><code>sortBy(casanet_perfect(lingex_qui_quoi));filterBy(casanet_perfect_filter(lingex_qui_quoi));setSortAttribute(indice,sortDirection,sortDirectionDesc);sortBy(indice,score2(lingex_qui_quoi,lingex_ou,matrice), ordered(lingex_qui_quoi),ordered(lingex_ou),rs);catalogBy(libniv3);sendxref(rs);sendxref(crs);sendxref(nomcomm);sendxref(activite);sendxref(libniv3);sendxref(villep);sendxref(adrp);sendxref(nomvoie);sendxref(numtel_typetel);sendxref(internet);sendxref(pub);sendxref(marque);sendXrefHighlights();</code><options><option name="maxFiles">10</option><option name="startFiles">1</option><option name="highlight_zone_start">{match}</option><option name="highlight_zone_end">{/match}</option></options><metadata><meta name="base">Pages Jaunes</meta></metadata></search_request></search_requests>

Answer 1

For custom headers add line breaks (\r\n).
Or consider using http://us3.php.net/curl_setopt for headers, eg:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADERS, array(
'POST /phonexmlfeeds HTTP/1.1',
'Connection: close',
'Content-Type: text/xml',
etc...
));

Answer 2

Edit this line --
$header .= "Connection: close";
as you have--
$header = "Connection: close";