IE and Chrome remove spaces when post data using curl - php

Question

$first1 = $_POST['CFirst'];
$last1 = $_POST['CLast'];
$Phone1 =$_POST['Phone'];
$Fax1 = $_POST['Fax'];
$CEmail1 = $_POST['CEmail'];
$message1 = $_POST['Message']
$post_string = "ID=$id&Source=$Source&noMail=$noMail&CFirst=$first1&CLast=$last1&Phone=$Phone1&CEmail=$CEmail1&Message=$message1";
//create cURL connection
$curl_connection =
curl_init($url);
//set options
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
//set data to be posted
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
The problem with the above code is that it removes spaces in chrome and IE but in case of Firefox its working fine.
e.g:-
Lets says if i put spaces in my input field 'Hello how are you'. now right now its going as Hellohowareyou in case of IE/chrome. What can be the problem?
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I am not sure if this helps, but just sharing a function I have written to get pages using curl.
function get_web_page($url)
{
//echo "curl:url<pre>".$url."</pre><BR>";
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // don't return headers
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "spider", // who am i
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 15, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 15, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects
);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
$err = curl_errno( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo( $ch,CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL );
curl_close( $ch );
$header['errno'] = $err;
$header['errmsg'] = $errmsg;
//change errmsg here to errno
if ($errmsg)
{
echo "CURL:".$errmsg."<BR>";
}
return $content;
}