CURLOPT POSTFIELDS not attatching data to HTTP Request - php

I've been trying to send something via HTTP request, using the CURLOPT POSTFIELDS and the data doesn't seem to transfer. Am I missing something?
function sendTestCase($caseArgs){
try{
$ch = curl_init();
$sendData = http_build_query($caseArgs);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $sendData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost:8888/testrail/index.php?/miniapi/add_case/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Expect:"));
curl_exec($ch);
}
catch (HttpException $ex){
echo $ex."<-Exception";
}
curl_close($ch);
}

POSTFIELDS is perfectly capable of accepting an array and curl will do the url-building for you. As it stands now, you're passing in a string to curl (which happens to contain your form values), but not passing in a field name, so curl is sending out a bare string. Try this instead:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $caseArgs);

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CURL Sends Requests Twice For Single Request

I am using the following code to send a CURL request to send a SMS. But the SMS is being sent twice.
$message = urlencode($message);
$smsurl = "http://$url/sendmessage.php?user=matkaon&password=$password&mobile=$mobile&message=$message&sender=$sender&type=3";
$ch = curl_init($smsurl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$sentsms = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
I tried commenting some of the lines which solved the issue but gives an output as below:
What is the proper method to send a CURL request only once?
Try this:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $smsurl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_exec($ch);
Don't pass the URL as argument on the init function.
I don't know why the function is being called twice, but I never pass the URL as argument and always work great this way.
You'd usually use curl_init() with no parameters, then pass the URL into curl_exec.
Modified example 1 from curl_exec docs:
<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $smsurl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>

php curl function not giving the required result

I need help with API Integration. When I echo the variable $url, I get the result, but I do not know why cURL is not working for me:
<?php
$token="43e6c623dda8f35df4bXXXfa5f0ec57d58e91154a ";
$format="json";
$waybill="974510010010";
$ref_nos="";//either this or waybill
$verbose="0";// meta info need to append in url
$url="https://test.delhivery.com/api/packages/json/?token=".$token."&format=".$format."&waybill=".$waybill."&ref_nos=".$ref_nos."&verbose=".$verbose;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
echo curl_error($ch);
$return = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo $return;
?>
Do you have access to the service you are connecting to?
It could be that the service requires the data as POST variables as opposed to the GET parameters you are sending.
Or perhaps some error handling on server that does not validate the waybill value you are sending. The ref_nos variable is also empty, which some applications could interpret as invalid. A tips would be to omit the ref_nos variable from the request string if its value is empty.

server doesn't respond on POST Request with CURL + PHP

I have a simple PHP Script, that uses CURL to send a HTTP Post Request to a remote server.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://91.250.77.10/test.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('a' => 'b'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
$error = curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if ($error)
echo $error;
else
echo $contents;
This results in an error: "no response from server". The request can't be found in the access log of the remote server, too!
What's more, if I send the postfields as a querystring, i.e.:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '&a=b');
then everything is just fine.
It seems like something is wrong with the Apache or PHP configuration on the remote server. Any hints?
Edit:
As for now, it looks like the Server doesn't accept (or correctly handle) requests with Content-Type: multipart/form-data
(CURL uses that type when setting an array as the postfields, but not when setting a string.)
Since I need to send a file with the request, i have to use the multipart/form-data. So how do I get the server to correctly handle this?
If you pass an array to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS then the form is submitted as multipart/form-data There could be a possibility your remote end is not accepting this encoding type.
Best way to do POST request is to format postFields like this.
VARIABLE = VALUE separated by &.
TIP:
$postFields = 'var1=cons1&var2=cons2&var3=cons3&var4=cons4&var5=cons5';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://91.250.77.10/test.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFields;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
$error = curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if ($error)
echo $error;
else
echo $contents;
Would be Pleased to do any more help.
Check if the HTTP header contains "Expect:100-continue" field. Some Servers do not deal with this field and just wait.
You can try:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect: '));
For more information, pls see:
curl http 100 continue and multipartform-data post

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I have fetched data from server using this code, `$server = 'LOCALHOST:9000';
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml"
,"Content-length: ".strlen($requestXML)
,"Connection: close"
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $server);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $requestXML);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_errno($ch)){
print curl_error($ch);
echo " something went wrong..... try later";
}else{
echo " request accepted";
print $data;
curl_close($ch);
}`
Now I have to do reverse, how to send the data into server using php? curl method is the only way or is there any other method to do the same. Give me some example.
Sending/Receiving using cURL is the exact same thing. cURL is based on sending data to an given URL and possibly receiving a response. Let's take a simple example of getting a user and sending a user.
Getting a user would be
$data = array(
'user_id' => 1
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.site.com/getUser.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
getUser.php does nothing more than search for a user and return the data found.
$response would possibly contain data of the user, perhaps just a text-response containing the name. A serialized PHP array, an XML response with a full user profile.. etc.
Inserting/Sending data
$data = array(
'user_name' => 'Joshua',
'user_email' => 'my#email.com'
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.site.com/addUser.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
addUser.php performs some validation of the fields and if validated inserts a user in the database
$response in this case does not contain the userdata (however: it's a possibility), but more likely the $response contains a result. An ok textresponse, a json/xml response or perhaps a '200 OK' header response
It's all basically the same. There is no difference in getting/sending data using cURL. It's all based on sending a request and in most cases do something with the outcome.

Execute curl using php

I can call a soap server using java like this
Call call = new Call();
URL url = new URL("http://soap-something.dash.com/servlet/rpcrouter");
call.setTargetObjectURI("urn:login-transport");
call.setMethodName("confirmPassword");
call.setParams(a vector);
resp = call.invoke(url, "");
But my question is how can I call this same function using curl and php, I have already tried this, but it may be some kind of funny code
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://soap-something.dash.com/servlet/rpcrouter?urn:login-transport");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, "confirmPassword");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("username"=>"pritom", "password"=>"pritom"));
$head = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
echo "<br/>HTTP CODE: " . $httpCode;
print_r($head);
But it echo http code 100 and I do not found any result from soap server. But my soap server is ok, tested by java.
Looks fine to me, except CURLOPT_HEADER needs to be either true or false (include HTTP header in output or not),
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, "confirmPassword");
should be
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
I can only guess what confirmPassword is, if it's a callback, you should use CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION instead.
But as Ariel pointed out, you're not telling us what the problem is.
Try removing this line:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, false); // remove body
Then post what the output is.

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