cURL gets Internal Server Error when posting to aspx page - php

I have a big problem.
I have some applications made on an unix based system, and I use PHP with cURL to post an XML question to an IIS server with asp.net.
Every time I ask the server something I get error:
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 07:36:08 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 3032
But if I ask same question on another server, almost identically to this one (BOTH configured by me) I get results like it should and the headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 07:39:37 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 9169
I tried everything, searched hundreds of forums, but i don't find anything.
In IIS logs I only get:
2010-05-04 07:36:08 W3SVC1657587027 80.xx.xx.xx POST /XML_SERV/XmlAPI.aspx - 80 - 80.xx.xx.xx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1 500 0 0
any ideas where to look what is going on?
I forgot to mention! If I use an XML request software, and ask same question, it works.

Try reducing your asp page to the minimum, with the first try with an empty page. If this succeed, begin to add the real bits until it fails, so you can narrow the error.

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HTTP POST 404 not found

I'm currently using Zapier to send some POST data from a TypeForm to a WordPress website to create a new user.
The POST works, I get all the variables in my script I need and a user is created.
For some reason though the POST on the zapier account or Hurl.it returns a 404 not found error. Both the domain and script are accessible and currently the only issue is that the client receives an email saying that his Zap may have an issue (because it's returning a 404). The zap test on the URL actually returns a success though.
It just seems strange that everything works but both zapier and hurl.it are returning a 404 not found error?
The request from hurl.it is:
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Length: 117
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: runscope/0.1
The response from hurl.it is:
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Content-Length: 7
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:57:04 GMT
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.16
Anyone any ideas how I can resolve this?
Many thanks
I resolved this a few weeks ago but thought i'd just put it here in case anyone else comes across this.
The issue seemed to be with me requiring wp-blog-header.php in the file which was watching for the $_POST data. Now i'm pretty sure this was working fine at the start but i resolved this by changing the require to just be wp-load.php instead (i only needed access to a few functions).
Like i said above everything was still working with wp-blog-header.php being included it just 404ed on the zapier side and emailed the client. Something must of gone a miss in the wp() function or the template-loader.php file to cause it.

Link between PHP and HTTP Request and Response Messages

When I did a networks course I learned about HTTP Request and Response messages and I know how to code in php reasonably enough to get around. Now my question is, the PHP has to have some link to HTTP request and response message but how. I can't seem to see the link between the two. My reasoning for asking this is that I am using the Twitter API console tool to query their api. The tool sends the following HTTP request:
GET /1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%40twitterapi HTTP/1.1
Authorization:
OAuth oauth_consumer_key="DC0se*******YdC8r4Smg",oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",oauth_timestamp="1410970037",oauth_nonce="2453***055",oauth_version="1.0",oauth_token="796782156-ZhpFtSyPN5K3G**********088Z50Bo7aMWxkvgW",oauth_signature="Jes9MMAk**********CxsKm%2BCJs%3D"
Host:
api.twitter.com
X-Target-URI:
https://api.twitter.com
Connection:
Keep-Alive
and then I get a HTTP response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-frame-options:
SAMEORIGIN
content-type:
application/json;charset=utf-8
x-rate-limit-remaining:
177
last-modified:
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:07:17 GMT
status:
200 OK
date:
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:07:17 GMT
x-transaction:
491****a8cb3f7bd
pragma:
no-cache
cache-control:
no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0
x-xss-protection:
1; mode=block
x-content-type-options:
nosniff
x-rate-limit-limit:
180
expires:
Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT
set-cookie:
lang=en
set-cookie:
guest_id=v1%3A14109******2451388; Domain=.twitter.com; Path=/; Expires=Fri, 16-Sep-2016 16:07:17 UTC
content-length:
59281
x-rate-limit-reset:
1410970526
server:
tfe_b
strict-transport-security:
max-age=631138519
x-access-level:
read-write-directmessages
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When the web server captures the HTTP request, it determines how it should be handled. If the file requested is tweets.json, it will go make sure that file exists, and then pass control over to PHP.
PHP then begins its execution, and performs any logic that the script needs to do, meaning it could go to the database, it reads, writes and makes decisions based cookies, it does math, etc.
When the PHP script is done, it will return a HTML page as well as a bunch of headers back to the web server that called it. From there, the web server turns the HTML page and headers back into a HTTP request to respond.
That is a pretty simple overview, and web servers can work in many different ways, but this is a simple example of how it could work in a introductory use-case. In more complex scenarios, people can write their own web servers, which perform more complex logic inside of the web server software, rather than passing it off to PHP.
When it comes down to it, PHP files are just scripts that the web server executes when they are called, they provide the HTTP request as input, and get a web page and headers as output.

what is Via in HTTP Response and how to remove it?

I made a curl request to a PHP file on my server from my machine and it returns the following response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 317
Content-Type: application/json
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:30:16 GMT
Via: 1.1 SC10100_83_75
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:00:47 GMT
The problem is, this seems to be caching my request and is not returning the latest values. I suspect it is due to the Via header (read that it is about proxies). What is it and how can I remove it?
Looks like via - indicates that you have been routed via a proxy - however - this is information only - you need to make sure you caching headers are being set correctly so that the proxy takes the correct action.
Currently there is no caching headers being set on your request.
If you do not want it to be cached - then set the following header:
Cache-Control: no-cache
See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Issues/cache-private.html

Confirm that an image exists on Amazon S3 server -- CURL or fsockopen

I have some code that already checks for the existence of an image file on a remote server. This should be trivial using CURL or Fsockopen, but I have an issue.
For example, consider this URL:
http://media-cache-ec3.pinterest.com/upload/202450945720262211_0utXb0QZ_f.jpg
The HTTP Headers on this are as follows:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:10:59 GMT
ETag: "31d93cdf91def38bcdbd70786805ba2a"
Expires: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:10:59 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:27:21 GMT
Server: ECS (dfw/56F1)
x-amz-id-2: Lr9D66o3dW5NN15dXhh04MSKIrwqugtFH51g8XoloI+7tItd2ITxJp3KDhVpKWm5
x-amz-request-id: 4F9888DFA41E82C6
X-Cache: HIT
Content-Length: 168738
Yet, the actual page returns this:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
<RequestId>3AB3633B5D289688</RequestId>
<HostId>
/FOF1nsbJ6slumpg2YHnhV5L+j12z3U/fp5coyi/BGG8JRT3nAtPrCHcIV3p3B0Z
</HostId>
</Error>
I thought just getting the URL's contents would be enough, but whether I use CURL or fsockopen or file_get_contents(), the actual content is some binary garbage. Yet, pointing the browser to that URL shows me some XML from Amazon's S3, which is what I suppose Pinterest uses.
So, question: any tips on how I could check from within the body of the response (which prints as binary junk right now) to see if there is the "AccessDenied" message there?
Here is the code I am using:
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Trying to download a file using curl where file download is blocked by javascript?

I am trying to use curl to download a torrent file the url is
http://torcache.net/torrent/006DDC8C407ACCDAF810BCFF41E77299A373296A.torrent
You will notice that upon getting to the page the download of the file is blocked for a few seconds via javascript, I was wondering if there is anyway to bypass this while using curl and php?
Thanks
The file is not blocked via javascript, that's just an informal message if you request that file. The redirect then is done via javascript.
You can simulate the request your own, the important part here is that you add the HTTP Referrer request header. Example:
$ curl -I -H 'Referer: http://torcache.net/torrent/006DDC8C407ACCDAF810BCFF41E77299A373296A.torrent' http://torcache.net/torrent/006DDC8C407ACCDAF810BCFF41E77299A373296A.torrent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.3.0
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:13:59 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-bittorrent
Content-Length: 10767
Last-Modified: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:17:03 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
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Referrer is one thing to check, mind the typo in the HTTP specs, see Wikipedia.

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