Post File with curl

[gmoeller54]

Greetings,

Kind of stumped - need to post an xml for a remote printer server.

What would be preventing me from posting the xml with the following code?

I've been having a person at the remote server checking logs - nothing hitting the server yet!

$file2  = "xxxxx/$xxxxxFile.xml";

 

$c = curl_init();

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.com/xxxxxx/xxxxxReceive.dll");

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($file2));

 

$fp = fopen($file2, "r");

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);

 

curl_exec($c);

 

curl_close($c);

fclose($fp);

Thanks!

[Nick]

You have .com in the url - is the printer internet facing or behind a router or firewall?

What at the response headers you get back from the curl request?

Can you access the URL in your browser, does that log a request if you do that.

Nick

[gmoeller54 .]

Thanks for the response!

The printer is behind a firewall that is 'wide open' - I assume there is a router as well - I will ask.

I don't get any response headers back from the request (at least I think).

If you type the URL directly into the browser, the screen goes blank 

- the printer said that is what is supposed to happen, but they do not receive any log of my attempt actually touching the server.

If you use Firefox HTTP Resource Test Add-on, I do get a header response.

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[gmoeller54 .]

Tested again this morning - HTTP Resource Test works fine from both a random network and from within the server I am running my website from.

The printer sees that it hits their server in their logs as well.  This is by using the XML that the mail.php is supposed to send and by sending it directly to the .dll URL that I have in the mail.php.

Sending it from the mail.php is not working.  I don't understand - it looks like my syntax is correct in my mail.php, using cURL - but it is not working :-/

[Shahzeb Farooq Chohan]

Hello gmoeller54,
Please have a look at this thread I have written a blog post about the same in past post an XML file using PHP to remote server without ftp
Please let me know you still face the same problem.

Thanks
Shahzeb
eCaroBar.com

[gmoeller54]

Thanks for your response Shahzeb!

Here is what I have done.

Please keep in mind that there is a .dll file on the printer server that needs to be accessed.

The xml is POSTed to this .dll

<?php

$thistext=('http://www.xxx.com/xxx.xml');

 $ch = curl_init('xxx.com/xxx.dll');

 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");

 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $thistext);

 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(

  'Content-Type: application/xml',

  'Content-Length: ' . strlen($thistext))   );                                                                                                                  

  $result = curl_exec($ch);

 print_r($result);

 curl_close($ch);

 

?>

As you can see I modified your code to something slightly different.

I need to POST the xml to this .dll - I do not seem to be having any luck!

If I simply ping the .dll address from the server, it is successful - so I do not think it is network or firewall related.

Just my syntax

[gmoeller54]

FYI I am using php 5.2.17 on windows server (iis)

[David Neilsen]

Does it work from the CLI? If not, enable verbose output and have a look at that.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3007253/send-post-xml-file-using-curl-command-line

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:51 AM, gmoeller54 <gmoe...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI I am using php 5.2.17 on windows server (iis)

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[gmoeller54 .]

Thanks David,

I am having a little trouble with the syntax for this test.  I have created a batch file and the error I am getting in command prompt is as follows: -d: requires parameter

It also doesn't like "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

I can provide the full batch file if you think appropriate (minus sensitive urls of course)

Further I am not really sure this is the issue.  I am able to run Firefox HTTP Resource Test, put in the remote server location of the .dll file, enter my xml data, select POST request, and get a successful header return.

This is why I am thinking it is the syntax for my mail.php

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