cURL works via command line but not in PHP Curl - php

Question

The following command works perfect in the command line:
c:\>curl -v -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><methodCall><methodName>create_account</methodName><params><param><value><struct><member><name>user</name><value><string>test</string></value></member><member><name>server</name><value><string>chat3.activengage.com</string></value></member><member><name>password</name><value><string>test</string></value></member></struct></value></param></params></methodCall>" http://localhost:4561
* About to connect() to localhost port 4561 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 4561 (#0)
> POST / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.26.0
> Host: localhost:4561
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Content-Length: 428
>
* upload completely sent off: 428 out of 428 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Length: 113
< Server: Erlang/Process-One
< Connection: close
<
<?xml version="1.0"?><methodResponse><params><param><value><int>0</int></value><
/param></params></methodResponse>* Closing connection #0
And in PHP using the code below:
public /*string*/ function registerUser(/*string*/$user,/*string*/$pass){
$xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><methodCall><methodName>create_account</methodName><params><param><value><struct><member><name>user</name><value><string>test2</string></value></member><member><name>server</name><value><string>chat3.activengage.com</string></value></member><member><name>password</name><value><string>test</string></value></member></struct></value></param></params></methodCall>";
$handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://127.0.0.1:4561');
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
$content = curl_exec($handle);
echo $xml;
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
print_r($httpCode);
print_r($content);
if(curl_errno($handle))
{
echo 'error:' . curl_error($handle);
}
curl_close($handle);
}
The result is a HTTP Status code 400. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
UPDATE - The result of CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT
string(99) "POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:4561
Accept: */*
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 400
"

Answer 1

Running a curl request from my browser based PHP script failed after I broke my etc/resolv.conf file.
I discovered this after visiting
php5-curl error: couldn't resolve host
After fixing the resolve.conf file as follows:
(note: 192.168.1.1 is my router address)
# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 192.168.1.1
Curl behaved as expected.
I Hope it helps you