note 54150 added to ref.curl

After trying both ksavage and mmm's attempts to send HTTP POST's with full xml in them, I was finally successful after using an obscure content-type (multipart/mixed) with a boundary declaration. Incidentally, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST only accepts method names like 'POST' or 'PUT', not entire headers. You need to use CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER. <?php $request = "<xml>...</xml>"; $header[] = "Host: $host"; $header[] = "MIME-Version: 1.0"; $header[] = "Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=----doc"; $header[] = "Accept: text/xml"; $header[] = "Content-length: ".strlen($request); $header[] = "Cache-Control: no-cache"; $header[] = "Connection: close \r\n"; $header[] = $request; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST,'POST'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); ?> On the other side, the server grabs the post data and strips the boundaries. <?php $somecontent = $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA; $somecontent = trim(str_replace('----doc','',$somecontent)); echo $somecontent; //returns <xml>...</xml> ?> Back at the client, the server's output is taken by curl_exec() and stored in $data <?php $data = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) { print curl_error($ch); } else { curl_close($ch); echo $data; //returns <xml>...</xml> } ?> Compared to SOAP or REST, this is really an enormous pain, plus the server still has to parse the xml to be able to use it. But sometimes it's unavoidable. Enjoy. Eric ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+54150 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54150&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54150&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54150&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54150&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54150&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54150&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+54150&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php