Re: Best way to post XML via curl?

2009/2/12 Brian Dunning <brian@briandunning.com>: > I'm going crazy, can't quite get this encoding to work. I've tried all the > various combinations, trying to send this block $xml (which is a simple > string variable) via post along with 3 other params: > > $postArgs = http_build_query(array('method'=>'newPrintRequest', > 'login'=>$login, 'password'=>$password, > 'orderxml'=>$xml)); > $ch = > curl_init('http://test.server.com/rest_interface.php'); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postArgs); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: text/xml")); Drop the above line and I reckon it should work. The content you're sending is not XML, it's form fields which CURL will default to. It just happens that one of those fields is XML. > $response = curl_exec($ch); > > Is this use of http_build_query the best way to send XML? Any other curl > options I should be setting? I tried urlencoding() the $xml, I tried > htmlspecialchars(), I tried nothing at all, I tried &amp and &.... is there > a "best practice" for how a big block of xml should be posted? -Stuart -- http://stut.net/