Client URL Library

Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
Examples
- Basic curl example
cURL Functions
- curl_close — Close a cURL session
- curl_copy_handle — Copy a cURL handle along with all of its preferences
- curl_errno — Return the last error number
- curl_error — Return a string containing the last error for the current session
- curl_escape — URL encodes the given string
- curl_exec — Perform a cURL session
- curl_getinfo — Get information regarding a specific transfer
- curl_init — Initialize a cURL session
- curl_multi_add_handle — Add a normal cURL handle to a cURL multi handle
- curl_multi_close — Remove all cURL handles from a multi handle
- curl_multi_errno — Return the last multi curl error number
- curl_multi_exec — Run the sub-connections of the current cURL handle
- curl_multi_getcontent — Return the content of a cURL handle if CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is set
- curl_multi_info_read — Get information about the current transfers
- curl_multi_init — Returns a new cURL multi handle
- curl_multi_remove_handle — Remove a handle from a set of cURL handles
- curl_multi_select — Wait until reading or writing is possible for any cURL multi handle connection
- curl_multi_setopt — Set a cURL multi option
- curl_multi_strerror — Return string describing error code
- curl_pause — Pause and unpause a connection
- curl_reset — Reset all options of a libcurl session handle
- curl_setopt — Set an option for a cURL transfer
- curl_setopt_array — Set multiple options for a cURL transfer
- curl_share_close — Close a cURL share handle
- curl_share_errno — Return the last share curl error number
- curl_share_init — Initialize a cURL share handle
- curl_share_setopt — Set an option for a cURL share handle
- curl_share_strerror — Return string describing the given error code
- curl_strerror — Return string describing the given error code
- curl_unescape — Decodes the given URL encoded string
- curl_upkeep — Performs any connection upkeep checks
- curl_version — Gets cURL version information
CurlHandle — The CurlHandle class
CurlMultiHandle — The CurlMultiHandle class
CurlShareHandle — The CurlShareHandle class
CURLFile — The CURLFile class
- CURLFile::__construct — Create a CURLFile object
- CURLFile::getFilename — Get file name
- CURLFile::getMimeType — Get MIME type
- CURLFile::getPostFilename — Get file name for POST
- CURLFile::setMimeType — Set MIME type
- CURLFile::setPostFilename — Set file name for POST
CURLStringFile — The CURLStringFile class
- CURLStringFile::__construct — Create a CURLStringFile object

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13 years ago

I wrote the following to see if a submitted URL has a valid http response code and also if it responds quickly. 



Use the code like this:



<?php

$is_ok = http_response($url); // returns true only if http response code < 400

?>



The second argument is optional, and it allows you to check for  a specific response code



<?php

http_response($url,'400'); // returns true if http status is 400

?>



The third allows you to specify how long you are willing to wait for a response.



<?php

http_response($url,'200',3); // returns true if the response takes less than 3 seconds and the response code is 200

?>



<?php

function http_response($url, $status = null, $wait = 3)

{

        $time = microtime(true);

        $expire = $time + $wait;



        // we fork the process so we don't have to wait for a timeout

        $pid = pcntl_fork();

        if ($pid == -1) {

            die('could not fork');

        } else if ($pid) {

            // we are the parent

            $ch = curl_init();

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE); // remove body

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

            $head = curl_exec($ch);

            $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

            curl_close($ch);

            

            if(!$head)

            {

                return FALSE;

            }

            

            if($status === null)

            {

                if($httpCode < 400)

                {

                    return TRUE;

                }

                else

                {

                    return FALSE;

                }

            }

            elseif($status == $httpCode)

            {

                return TRUE;

            }

            

            return FALSE;

            pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children

        } else {

            // we are the child

            while(microtime(true) < $expire)

            {

            sleep(0.5);

            }

            return FALSE;

        }

    }

?>



Hope this example helps.  It is not 100% tested, so any feedback [sent directly to me by email] is appreciated.

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artem at zabsoft dot co dot in ¶

15 years ago

Hey I modified script for php 5. Also I add support server auth. and fixed some little bugs on the script.



[EDIT BY danbrown AT php DOT net: Original was written by (unlcuky13 AT gmail DOT com) on 19-APR-09.  The following note was included:

Below is the my way of using through PHP 5 objecte oriented encapsulation to make thing easier.]



<?php

 class mycurl {

     protected $_useragent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1';

     protected $_url;

     protected $_followlocation;

     protected $_timeout;

     protected $_maxRedirects;

     protected $_cookieFileLocation = './cookie.txt';

     protected $_post;

     protected $_postFields;

     protected $_referer ="http://www.google.com";



     protected $_session;

     protected $_webpage;

     protected $_includeHeader;

     protected $_noBody;

     protected $_status;

     protected $_binaryTransfer;

     public    $authentication = 0;

     public    $auth_name      = '';

     public    $auth_pass      = '';



     public function useAuth($use){

       $this->authentication = 0;

       if($use == true) $this->authentication = 1;

     }



     public function setName($name){

       $this->auth_name = $name;

     }

     public function setPass($pass){

       $this->auth_pass = $pass;

     }



     public function __construct($url,$followlocation = true,$timeOut = 30,$maxRedirecs = 4,$binaryTransfer = false,$includeHeader = false,$noBody = false)

     {

         $this->_url = $url;

         $this->_followlocation = $followlocation;

         $this->_timeout = $timeOut;

         $this->_maxRedirects = $maxRedirecs;

         $this->_noBody = $noBody;

         $this->_includeHeader = $includeHeader;

         $this->_binaryTransfer = $binaryTransfer;



         $this->_cookieFileLocation = dirname(__FILE__).'/cookie.txt';



     }



     public function setReferer($referer){

       $this->_referer = $referer;

     }



     public function setCookiFileLocation($path)

     {

         $this->_cookieFileLocation = $path;

     }



     public function setPost ($postFields)

     {

        $this->_post = true;

        $this->_postFields = $postFields;

     }



     public function setUserAgent($userAgent)

     {

         $this->_useragent = $userAgent;

     }



     public function createCurl($url = 'nul')

     {

        if($url != 'nul'){

          $this->_url = $url;

        }



         $s = curl_init();



         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_URL,$this->_url);

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('Expect:'));

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,$this->_timeout);

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,$this->_maxRedirects);

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,$this->_followlocation);

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,$this->_cookieFileLocation);

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,$this->_cookieFileLocation);



         if($this->authentication == 1){

           curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->auth_name.':'.$this->auth_pass);

         }

         if($this->_post)

         {

             curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_POST,true);

             curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$this->_postFields);



         }



         if($this->_includeHeader)

         {

               curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_HEADER,true);

         }



         if($this->_noBody)

         {

             curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_NOBODY,true);

         }

         /*

         if($this->_binary)

         {

             curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,true);

         }

         */

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,$this->_useragent);

         curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_REFERER,$this->_referer);



         $this->_webpage = curl_exec($s);

                   $this->_status = curl_getinfo($s,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

         curl_close($s);



     }



   public function getHttpStatus()

   {

       return $this->_status;

   }



   public function __tostring(){

      return $this->_webpage;

   }

}

?>



[EDIT BY danbrown AT php DOT net: Contains a bugfix supplied by "roetsch.beni at googlemail (dot) com" on 02-AUG-09, with the following note: "Fixes the bugfix: 417 bug at lighthttp server."]

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gmail@asmqb7 ¶

8 years ago

WARNING WARNING

In this example: http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php#102885 by "frank at interactinet dot com"

There's a small bug in

<?php

         ...

         elseif($status == $httpCode) 
            { 
                return TRUE; 
            } 

            return FALSE; 
            pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children 
        } else { 
            // we are the child 
            while(microtime(true) < $expire) 

         ...

?>

The code will immediately leave the function at the `return`, and pcntl_wait() will NEVER be executed, under any circumstances.

I can't see any other issues with this function however.

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artax_N_O_S_P_A_M_erxes2 at iname dot com ¶

14 years ago

I needed to use cURL in a php script to download data using not only SSL for the server authentication but also for client authentication.

On a default install of Fedora, setting up the proper cURL parameters, I would get an error: 



$ php curl.php

 Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates



The data on http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html was most useful. Indeed, toward to bottom it tells you to add a missing link inside /etc/pki/nssdb to use the ca-bundle.crt file. You do it so:



# cd /etc/pki/nssdb

# ln -s /usr/lib64/libnssckbi.so libnssckbi.so



Now you can do client authentication, provided you have your certificate handy with:



<?php

$data = "<soap:Envelope>[...]</soap:Envelope>";

$tuCurl = curl_init();

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/path/for/soap/url/");

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_PORT , 443);

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 3);

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, getcwd() . "/client.pem");

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_SSLKEY, getcwd() . "/keyout.pem");

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_CAINFO, getcwd() . "/ca.pem");

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

curl_setopt($tuCurl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: text/xml","SOAPAction: \"/soap/action/query\"", "Content-length: ".strlen($data)));



$tuData = curl_exec($tuCurl);

if(!curl_errno($tuCurl)){

  $info = curl_getinfo($tuCurl);

  echo 'Took ' . $info['total_time'] . ' seconds to send a request to ' . $info['url'];

} else {

  echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($tuCurl);

}



curl_close($tuCurl);

echo $tuData;

?>

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zle.lc ¶

3 years ago

Sharing is caring, handles included.

<?php

$url_one = "php.net";
$url_two = "";

$user_agent = 'Mozilla HotFox 1.0';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url_one.$url_two);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
$res = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$url_two = "lazyphp.net";
$url_one = "";
$res_two = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

?>

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ramez at dot dontspan dot zegenie dot com ¶

14 years ago

CURL failed with PHP5.3 and Apache2.2.X on my Windows 7 machine. 

It turns out that it's not enough to copy the two dll's mentioned (libeay32 and sslea32) from the php folder into your system32 folder. You HAVE TO UNBLOCK THESE TWO FILES.

Right click the file, select unblock, for each one. Then restart Apache.

Another very handy security feature added into Windows.

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qrworld.net ¶

9 years ago

Here you have a function that I use to get the content of a URL using cURL:

function getUrlContent($url){
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)');
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
 $data = curl_exec($ch);
 $httpcode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
 curl_close($ch);
 return ($httpcode>=200 && $httpcode<300) ? $data : false;
}

The source comes from this website:

http://softontherocks.blogspot.com/2014/11/descargar-el-contenido-de-una-url.html

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jcmargentina at gmail dot com ¶

5 years ago

Please note that new versions of curl is using http2 as default, so if you are having some strange errors, 0 http status codes, etc, please explicitly specify the http version in your code.

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fred dot knieper at gmail dot com ¶

10 years ago

After a lot of frustration with the fact that nobody has documented which curl commandline options go with which library functions, I discovered that the curl commandline will tell you (in the form of a C program) if you add `--libcurl foo.c`

If you've been struggling with trying to figure out how to get your fancy curl commandline to work in PHP, this makes it a breeze!

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eflash at gmx dot net ¶

16 years ago

In order to use curl with secure sites you will need a ca-bundle.crt file; here's a PHP script I've written which creates a fresh ca-bundle:
http://www.gknw.net/php/phpscripts/mk-ca-bundle.php
I've also written scripts in other languages, f.e. the Perl one which ships now with curl distributions:
http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/lib/mk-ca-bundle.pl
and also a Win32 WSH script if you prefer that:
http://www.gknw.net/vb/scripts/mk-ca-bundle.vbs

HTH, Guenter.

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