note 107667 modified in function.curl-setopt by danbrown

As of at least PHP 5.3.9, if you are continuing to use a cURL session handle after downloading a file and closing the file handle, you will need to change CURLOPT_FILE back to stdout, and cannot count simply on a side effect of CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to do so, even if you are setting it. For example:

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$fh = fopen('/path/to/stored/file/example_file.dat', 'w');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fh);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/example_file.dat');
curl_exec($ch);
fflush($fh);
fclose($fh);

//must reset cURL file handle. Not doing so will cause a warning to be
//thrown and for cURL to default to output regardless
//for our example, we'll set return transfer.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, fopen('php://stdout', 'w'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.org/index.html');
$html = curl_exec($ch); //this will now work
?> --was-- As of at least PHP 5.3.9, if you are continuing to use a cURL session handle after downloading a file and closing the file handle, you will need to change CURLOPT_FILE back to stdout, and cannot count simply on a side effect of CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to do so, even if you are setting it. For example: <?php $ch = curl_init(); $fh = fopen(\\'/path/to/stored/file/example_file.dat\\', \\'w\\'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fh); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, \\'http://example.com/example_file.dat\\'); curl_exec($ch); fflush($fh); fclose($fh); //must reset cURL file handle. Not doing so will cause a warning to be //thrown and for cURL to default to output regardless //for our example, we\\'ll set return transfer. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, fopen(\\'php://stdout\\', \\'w\\')); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, \\'http://example.org/index.html\\'); $html = curl_exec($ch); //this will now work ?> http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php