Req #76847 [Com]: support headers in individual parameters in "Multipart/form-data" requests

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76847&edit=1 ID: 76847 Comment by: divinity76 at gmail dot com Reported by: divinity76+spam at gmail dot com Summary: support headers in individual parameters in "Multipart/form-data" requests Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: cURL related PHP Version: Next Minor Version Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: for a userland implementation, as well as an example of the amount of shit one has to do to work around this limitation, see the: "edit: if you absolutely must have the header, then you cannot use PHP's curl_ api's multipart/form-data generator, you must roll your own"-part of this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52191778/1067003 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-09-06 10:53:03] divinity76+spam at gmail dot com Description: ------------ the multipart/form-data format and libcurl allows for headers for individual parameters in the multipart/form-data body (look at the "Expected Result" section to see an example of what it looks like), but php's libcurl wrapper, the curl_* api does not (except 1 notable exception thanks to the CURLFile class, which allows specifying the "Content-Type" and "filename" headers) this limitation makes it difficult to answer this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52182551/linux-curl-f-to-php-curl-contact-everyone-api/52191778 and to port the following curl invocation to php: curl -F "json={whatever:123};headers=\"Content-Type: application/json\";headers=\"X-Api-Key: jsonapikey\"" -F "xml=.<xml>whatever</xml>;headers=\"Content-Type: application/xml\";headers=\"X-Api-Key: xmlapikey\"" dumpinput.ratma.net currently you'll have to craft the multipart/form-data body manually and give it to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS as a string or something. so for php userland, i propose a CURLMultiPart class taking a value and a array of strings of headers just like the existing CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, and otherwise work much like the existing CURLFile class. at the same time i propose upgrading the CURLFile class to add a new optional array parameter of custom headers. as for the libcurl integration, the example code generated by curl's --libcurl parameter may be of help: http://paste.debian.net/1040960/ Test script: --------------- <?php $ch = curl_init (); curl_setopt_array ( $ch, array ( CURLOPT_URL => "http://dumpinput.ratma.net", CURLOPT_POST => 1, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array ( 'json' => new CURLMultiPart ( json_encode ( array ( 'whatever' => 123 ) ), array ( 'Content-Type: application/json', 'X-Api-Key: jsonapikey' ) ), 'xml' => new CURLMultiPart ( '.<xml>whatever</xml>', array ( 'Content-Type: application/xml', 'X-Api-Key: xmlapikey' ) ) ) ) ); curl_exec ( $ch ); Expected result: ---------------- POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: dumpinput.ratma.net User-Agent: curl/7.59.0 Accept: */* Content-Length: 373 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------43d95126c0bbf31e --------------------------43d95126c0bbf31e Content-Disposition: form-data; name="json" Content-Type: application/json X-Api-Key: jsonapikey {whatever:123} --------------------------43d95126c0bbf31e Content-Disposition: form-data; name="xml" Content-Type: application/xml X-Api-Key: xmlapikey .<xml>whatever</xml> --------------------------43d95126c0bbf31e-- Actual result: -------------- PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'CURLMultiPart' not found ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76847&edit=1