I'm trying to send an XML file via cURL.
Everything is working except for the headers, which aren't being sent correctly.
Why are they not being received?
test.php
$xml = file_get_contents("test.xml");
//These are the CUSTOM HEADERS being set in an array for later:
$data = array(
'x-meta-feed-type: Latest',
'x-meta-feed-parameters: feed params',
'x-meta-default-filename: '.time().'.xml',
'x-meta-game-id: f790722',
'x-meta-competition-id: c420',
'x-meta-season-id: 2014',
'x-meta-gamesystem-id: SUD_CL',
'x-meta-matchday: 7',
'x-meta-away-team-id: t2578',
'x-meta-home-team-id: t764',
'x-meta-game-status: 11',
'x-meta-language: en',
'x-meta-production-server: local',
'x-meta-production-server-timestamp: '.time(),
'x-meta-production-server-module: 1',
' x-meta-mime-type: text/xml',
'encoding: UTF-8'
);
//set URL
$url = 'http://www.example.com/receive.php';
// Get the curl session object
$session = curl_init($url);
// set url to post to
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
// Tell curl to use HTTP POST;
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $data);
// Tell curl that this is the body of the POST
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
// Tell curl not to return headers, and return the response
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
// allow redirects
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$response = curl_exec($session);
if (curl_errno($session)) {
print "Error: " . curl_error($session);
} else {
// Show me the result
echo $response;
curl_close($session);
}
curl_close($session);
receive.php
$headers = apache_request_headers();
$post_data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$posts = array (
'feedType' => isset($headers['x-meta-feed-type']) ? $headers['x-meta-feed-type'] : '',
'feedParameters' => isset($headers['x-meta-feed-parameters']) ? $headers['x-meta-feed-parameters'] : '',
'defaultFilename' => isset($headers['x-meta-default-filename']) ? $headers['x-meta-default-filename'] : '',
'deliveryType' => isset($headers['x-meta-game-id']) ? $headers['x-meta-game-id'] : '',
'messageDigest' => md5($post_data),
'competitionId' => isset($headers['x-meta-competition-id']) ? $headers['x-meta-competition-id'] : '',
'seasonId' => isset($headers['x-meta-season-id']) ? $headers['x-meta-season-id'] : '',
'gameId' => isset($headers['x-meta-game-id']) ? $headers['x-meta-game-id'] : '',
'gameSystemId' => isset($headers['x-meta-gamesystem-id']) ? $headers['x-meta-gamesystem-id'] : '',
'matchday' => isset($headers['x-meta-matchday']) ? $headers['x-meta-matchday'] : '',
'awayTeamId' => isset($headers['x-meta-away-team-id'])?$headers['x-meta-away-team-id']:'',
'homeTeamId' => isset($headers['x-meta-home-team-id']) ? $headers['x-meta-home-team-id'] : '',
'gameStatus' => isset($headers['x-meta-game-status']) ? $headers['x-meta-game-status'] : '',
'language' => isset($headers['x-meta-language']) ? $headers['x-meta-language'] : '',
'productionServer' => isset($headers['x-meta-production-server']) ? $headers['x-meta-production-server'] : '',
'productionServerTimeStamp' => isset($headers['x-meta-production-server-timestamp']) ? $headers['x-meta-production-server-timestamp'] : '',
'productionServerModule' => isset($headers['x-meta-production-server-module']) ? $headers['x-meta-production-server-module'] : '',
'mimeType' => 'text/xml',
'encoding' => isset($headers['x-meta-encoding']) ? $headers['x-meta-encoding'] : '',
'content' => $post_data
);
exit(print_r($posts));
Output
HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:13:20 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.45-0+deb7u1
Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
Array
(
[feedType] =>
[feedParameters] =>
[defaultFilename] =>
[deliveryType] =>
[messageDigest] => 144ce144c73a12ea51a03ac1ef1256e5
[competitionId] =>
[seasonId] =>
[gameId] =>
[gameSystemId] =>
[matchday] =>
[awayTeamId] =>
[homeTeamId] =>
[gameStatus] =>
[language] =>
[productionServer] =>
[productionServerTimeStamp] =>
[productionServerModule] =>
[mimeType] => text/xml
[encoding] =>
[content] => File Content
) 1
If I use var_dump on the $headers object (retrieved via apache_request_headers), I see that all the header tags have had their first letters capitalised:
HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:30:20 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.45-0+deb7u1
Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
array(24) {
["Connection"]=>
string(5) "close"
["Expect"]=>
string(12) "100-continue"
["Content-Type"]=>
string(33) "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
["Content-Length"]=>
string(5) "90166"
["Encoding"]=>
string(5) "UTF-8"
["X-Meta-Mime-Type"]=>
string(8) "text/xml"
["X-Meta-Production-Server-Module"]=>
string(1) "1"
["X-Meta-Production-Server-Timestamp"]=>
string(10) "1444044620"
["X-Meta-Production-Server"]=>
string(6) "server"
["X-Meta-Language"]=>
string(2) "en"
["X-Meta-Game-Status"]=>
string(2) "11"
["X-Meta-Home-Team-Id"]=>
string(4) "t764"
["X-Meta-Away-Team-Id"]=>
string(5) "t2578"
["X-Meta-Matchday"]=>
string(1) "7"
["X-Meta-Gamesystem-Id"]=>
string(6) "SUD_CL"
["X-Meta-Season-Id"]=>
string(4) "2014"
["X-Meta-Competition-Id"]=>
string(4) "c420"
["X-Meta-Game-Id"]=>
string(7) "f790722"
["X-Meta-Default-Filename"]=>
string(26) "opta-1444044620-bIb24r.xml"
["X-Meta-Feed-Parameters"]=>
string(11) "feed params"
["X-Meta-Feed-Type"]=>
string(6) "Latest"
["Accept"]=>
string(3) "*/*"
["Host"]=>
string(19) "example.com"
["User-Agent"]=>
string(109) "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.101 Safari/537.36"
}
While this is strange - and I'm curious as to why this happens, as the headers were not capitalised when sent - the solution is to simply change the receiving page to check for the capitalised custom headers as they are case-sensitive.
Add header Content-Type to application/xml or text/xml in header $data as you are sending xml data in post.
$data = array(
'x-meta-feed-type: Latest',
'x-meta-feed-parameters: feed params',
'x-meta-default-filename: '.time().'.xml',
'x-meta-game-id: f790722',
'x-meta-competition-id: c420',
'x-meta-season-id: 2014',
'x-meta-gamesystem-id: SUD_CL',
'x-meta-matchday: 7',
'x-meta-away-team-id: t2578',
'x-meta-home-team-id: t764',
'x-meta-game-status: 11',
'x-meta-language: en',
'x-meta-production-server: local',
'x-meta-production-server-timestamp: '.time(),
'x-meta-production-server-module: 1',
' x-meta-mime-type: text/xml',
'encoding: UTF-8',
'Content-Type : application/xml'
);