PHP cURL custom headers - php

Question

I'm wondering if/how you can add custom headers to a cURL HTTP request in PHP. I'm trying to emulate how iTunes grabs artwork and it uses these non-standard headers:
X-Apple-Tz: 0
X-Apple-Store-Front: 143444,12
How could I add these headers to a request?

Answer 1

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'X-Apple-Tz: 0',
'X-Apple-Store-Front: 143444,12'
]);
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

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);
$headers = [
'X-Apple-Tz: 0',
'X-Apple-Store-Front: 143444,12',
'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate',
'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5',
'Cache-Control: no-cache',
'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8',
'Host: www.example.com',
'Referer: http://www.example.com/index.php', //Your referrer address
'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0',
'X-MicrosoftAjax: Delta=true'
];
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print $server_output ;

Answer 3

$subscription_key = '';
$host = '';
$request_headers = [
'X-Mashape-Key:' . $subscription_key,
'X-Mashape-Host:' . $host
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $request_headers);
$season_data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print "Error: " . curl_error($ch);
exit();
}
// Show me the result
curl_close($ch);
$json = json_decode($season_data, true);

Answer 4

Here is one basic function:
/**
*
* #param string $url
* #param string|array $post_fields
* #param array $headers
* #return type
*/
function cUrlGetData($url, $post_fields = null, $headers = null) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
if (!empty($post_fields)) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);
}
if (!empty($headers))
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
Usage example:
$url = "http://www.myurl.com";
$post_fields = 'postvars=val1&postvars2=val2';
$headers = ['Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'];
$dat = cUrlGetData($url, $post_fields, $headers);