When I load the URL used below in curl function directly in a browser, I get correct data in XML format.
But when I call it through curl, sometimes I get data in JSON format or sometimes no dat at all.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://api.ean.com/ean-services/rs/hotel/v3/list?minorRev=4&cid=55505&apiKey=5q4gzx43g6ukcrq798z2hz75&customerSessionId=&locale=en_US¤cyCode=USD&xml=<HotelListRequest><city>new%20delhi</city><RoomGroup><Room><numberOfAdults>2</numberOfAdults><numberOfResults></numberOfResults></Room></RoomGroup></HotelListRequest>");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
$retValue = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $retValue;
The above API is working so you can test it yourself.
You need to specify XML content type explicitly in your HTTP request by setting Accept header field, so REST server knows what do you want e.g.:
Accept: text/xml,application/xml;q=1
In your case (q=1 is default value):
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('Accept: text/xml,application/xml'));
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I am using curl request to hit the has-offers conversion url from my sevrver with the help of curl but it is not working.But when I call the same URL using a browser, it works.Is they can block CURL requests?.I am not getting why, is there any port blocking issue.
Below is php code to call url using curl request.
<?php
function curl_get_contents($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
$url="http://paravey.go2cloud.org/aff_l?offer_id=12&aff_id=1000";
$contents = curl_get_contents($url);
echo $contents;
?>
Please help me thanks in Advance
The url you are curling is a pixel tracking url:
http://paravey.go2cloud.org/aff_l?offer_id=12&aff_id=1000
The aff_l endpoint looks for a cookie with session information (hence why it works in the browser).
If you want to create conversions with server side code, you will need to store the session identifier (the transaction_id) in your system and use the aff_lsr endpoint to send that data to HasOffers to trigger a conversion.
The url for this would look like this:
http://paravey.go2cloud.org/aff_lsr?transaction_id= VALUE
Where Value is the session identifier you have stored.
I would ask the HasOffers support team if you have more issues with this.
The code below sends XML via CURL using POST with a http header of text/xml. The server responds by echoing $ch_result. I am making a call to this file via AJAX as the content of the returned XML file will need to be displayed on the client-side. Is there anyway I can get this XML file into an array so I can use json_encode and have it return like that? I need this content to be easy to manipulate using JavaScript as the XML file returned is large... so an array might be best?
Thanks!
<?php
$xml_builder = '
MY XML POSTED TO SERVER GOES HERE';
$ch = curl_init('http://username:password#myserver.blabla/api');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_builder);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.mydomain.co.uk');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$ch_result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $ch_result;
?>
You can parse the XML on server side, but also on client side.
On server side:
Simple and dirty way:
<?php
$a = json_decode(json_encode((array) simplexml_load_string($s)),1);
?>
however, please read this article:
http://gaarf.info/2009/08/13/xml-string-to-php-array/
On client side:
If you are using jQuery you can set dataType to xml, and can parse the xml on client side with jQuery:
How to parse XML using jQuery?
To parse xml using jquery you must echo: htmlentities($ch_result) so that the XML is echoed with the tags etc.
I'm trying to fetch this url via a script: http://api.alarabiya.net/sections/2/
But JSON response received is much smaller than when I open it directly in a browser,
please notice that I tried this url through CURL and set the same USER-AGENT of the browser and all request header used in the browser and I still get a smaller response.
Here's an exmaple using just file_get_contents
<?php
echo file_get_contents("http://api.alarabiya.net/sections/2/");
?>
My question is if there's a request size limit when using file_get_contents or if the PHP's memory can't handle it or what's the problem exactly?
When I CURLed this in shell it gave me the same o/p as in php (the trimmed output).
I finally found a solution for this:
$url = "http://api.alarabiya.net/sections/2/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
// This is what solved the issue (Accepting gzip encoding)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip,deflate");
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
I've been trying to perform an XML request. I've faced so many problems that I managed to solve. But this one I couldn't solve.
this is the script:
$url ="WebServiceUrl";
$xml="XmlRequest";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$xml");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;
It is giving me this error:
System.InvalidOperationException: Request format is invalid: text/xml. at System.Web.Services.Protocols.HttpServerProtocol.ReadParameters() at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebServiceHandler.CoreProcessRequest()
I'm still a noob at this. So go easy on me:)
thanks.
Looks like you're sending stuff as text/xml, which is not what it wants. Find the docs for this web service e.g. WSDL stuff if it's there, and find out what data formats it accepts.
Be sure e.g. that it's not really saying it will respond in XML, after receiving a request as standard HTML POST variables.
There are two main content types used with the HTTP POST method: application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data.
The content-type determines what the format of the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS should be. If you are using the default, which is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" you probably want to use build_http_query() to construct the url encoded query string.
If you are sending non-ASCII data you canpass an associative array with keys that match the field names and values that correspond to the value for the field. Using this technique will cause the request to be issued with a multipart/formdata content-type.
At this point, it sounds like your next step should be figuring out what fields the API is expecting.
application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data?
I use the following command in some old scripts:
curl -Lk "https:www.example.com/stuff/api.php?"
I then record the header into a variable and make comparisons and so forth. What I would really like to do is convert the process to PHP. I have enabled curl, openssl, and believe I have everything ready.
What I cannot seem to find is a handy translation to convert that command line syntax to the equivalent commands in PHP.
I suspect something in the order of :
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// What goes here so that I just get the Location and nothing else?
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Get the response and close the channel.
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
The goal being $response = the data from the api “OK=1&ect”
Thank you
I'm a little confused by your comment:
// What goes here so that I just get the Location and nothing else?
Anyway, if you want to obtain the response body from the remote server, use:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
If you want to get the headers in the response (i.e.: what your comment might be referring to):
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
If your problem is that there is a redirection between the initial call and the response, use:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);