I try to make a post request with php and curl. Here is my code
//PHP 5.3.5 and curl: 7.18.2
$ch = curl_init();
if(!empty($save_cookie)){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $save_cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $save_cookie);
}else{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/post.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $pars);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, !$body);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$postResult = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
return false;
}
curl_close($ch);
return $postResult;
In http://localhost/post.php, I write
print_r($_SERVER);
The result return of curl is always
[REQUEST_METHOD] => GET
Remove the CURLOPT_NOBODY
option and it will work. Or place it above the CURLOPT_POST
line.
I think I have encountered this once, when trying to get just the header of a response. Setting
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
effectively instructs curl
to issue a HEAD
request, which is not a POST
request. I think there is no way to just get the header from a POST
(and just drop the connection after receiving the header). As a side effect, setting CURLOPT_NOBODY
to false
sets the request type to GET
...
Do you really need the CURLOPT_NOBODY
flag?
Try to move the
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, !$body);
line right before the
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $pars);
line.
There's an interesting post at the curl/set_opt page, shedding some light on this behaviour:
If your POST data seems to be disappearing (POST data empty, request is being handled by the server as a GET), try rearranging the order of CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS setting with CURLOPT_NOBODY. CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS has to come AFTER CURLOPT_NOBODY setting because if it comes after it wipes out the header that tells your URL target that the request is a POST not a GET.