#27341 [Bgs->Opn]: CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER and CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST incompatibility?

ID: 27341 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: matteo at beccati dot com -Status: Bogus +Status: Open Bug Type: cURL related Operating System: Win32 - Linux PHP Version: 4.3.4 New Comment: Interesting :) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-21 08:30:19] daniel at haxx dot se I beg to differ. CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is not an option that libcurl provides, it is an option that the PHP/CURL layer has invented and uses. Thus, we cannot fix this in the curl project. It is not a curl bug! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-21 04:10:55] matteo at beccati dot com > Ask the curl author(s). Done. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=901648&group_id=976&atid=100976 > Not PHP bug (if it even is a bug which I doubt). You're probabiliy correct saying that it's not a PHP bug, but it really seems a wrong cURL behaviour to me. When setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER I'm asking curl_exec to return the result instead that outputting it, but result isn't returned, neither printed out. Thank you for your help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-21 02:57:08] sniper@php.net Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Thank you for your interest in PHP. Not PHP bug (if it even is a bug which I doubt). Ask the curl author(s). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-21 02:41:18] matteo at beccati dot com Description: ------------ Trying to help a friend which wanted to do a curl HEAD request with php (just like the shell curl -I does), I wrote down this code, without much checking: $ch = curl_init('http://foo/bar.html'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'HEAD'); var_dump(curl_exec($ch)); In fact he tried it and told me it doesn't work, while this does: $ch = curl_init('http://foo/bar.html'); //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'HEAD'); ob_start(); curl_exec($ch); var_dump(ob_get_clean()); phpinfo() tels me that I'm running: libcurl/7.10.5 OpenSSL/0.9.7b zlib/1.1.4 I've also seen bug #15279, but it was marked as documentation problem, and didn't explain this weird issue. Reproduce code: --------------- $ch = curl_init('http://beccati.com/img/adv.png'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'HEAD'); var_dump(curl_exec($ch)); Expected result: ---------------- string(214) "HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 07:39:06 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:35:16 GMT ETag: "27c64-204-3f30f604" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 516 Content-Type: image/png " Actual result: -------------- bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=27341&edit=1