Complete header control with curl

[herbivore]

I am using curl to do a post request to a server. The request contains xml data, the standard post headers sent by curl do not work. I have tried using the custom_request option with the whole post request inside it, but then curl adds a header after the custom_request portion.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $header);

^^^ the above produces a correct request, except it adds an additional set of headers after it.


I have tried sending the data in the CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, along with setting header values in the CURLOPT_HTTPHEA DER, but curl still sends the header values that it considers to be correct for a post request.

The following:

$header  = array("Content-type"=>"application/PTI26",
  "Content-length"=>strlen($xml),
  "Content-transfer-encoding"=>"text",
  "Request-number"=>"1",
  "Document-type"=>"Request",
  "Interface-Version"=>"Test 1.4",
  "Connection"=>"close");
 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
 

produces this request:

 POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.foobar.org
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Content-Length: 993
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
 

Is there some way to get more control of the header?
or
Is there another option besides curl that can handle a custom ssl certificate?

Thanks
Andrew

[Atli]

Hi Andrew. Welcome to The Scripts!

I haven't personally had much experience with cUrl so I'm afraid I can't help you much there. (I'm sure many of the other experts can, however)

But, you could always use sockets to send HTTP requests, giving you full control over the entire process. Check out the second example in that link.

[herbivore]

Thanks for your reply,

I would like to use sockets, but I do not know if/how the following portion can be done:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE, "PEM"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, $clientcertpath); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD, $clientcertpassword); 
 

Never mind, now I see under the streams section that I can use fsockopen() and supply that certificate info. The second example here is somewhat close to what I need.

Thanks, wouldn't of found it wothout you.

[Atli]

I'm glad I could help :)

Don't hesitate to post again if you have any more questions or problems we can help with.

[pbmods]

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