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using http header to POST a file 1

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kaancho12

kaancho12

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Feb 22, 2005
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hi,
could anybody tell me the way to "POST" a file using "HTTP header" after authentication??? Here's what I have as of now, but its not working. Is this the way to send out HTTP header with POST ???:
$fp = fsockopen("192.168.0.141", 80, $errno, $errstr);
if (!$fp){
echo "ERROR:" . $errno . "-" . $errstr . "<br>";
}else{
$out = "POST /cgi-bin/ss/program.cgi?client=1&dbname=products&filename=\"/var/ HTTP /1.1\r\n";
$out .= "HOST: 192.168.0.141\r\n";
$out .= "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode("username:passwd")."\r\n\r\n";
$string = "";
while(!feof($fp)){
$string .= fgets($fp, 128);
echo "string: " . $string;
}
fclose($fp);
 
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hi,
thanks for the link.
i tried using the
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_INFILE,"/var/option but its giving me this error:
curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in <b>/var/ on line <b>53</b><br />
which is the "CURLOPT_INFILE" line ---is this the right format for file input???
thanks
ko12
 
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I've never used that cURL option, but the error message tells me that the third parameter of your curl_setopt() invocation should be a file handle, not a string filename.


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thanks, for the tip.got that error fixed another error i get is, when i output the data is:
/////////////////
<html>
<body>
<h1>
<center>
Error
</center>
</h1>
<hr>
<p>
Internal error: Upload file name is missing in CGI data.
<!-- ClientApp: bo_error_message -->
<br>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
</table>
</table>
</table>
</table>
</table>
////////////

here's the code:
<?
/*
This method uses CURL to contact the server.

*/


// Either 'http' or 'https'. 'https' is only an option if OpenSSH
// is available on your system. Check phpinfo() to see whether
// HTTPS is available.
$HTTP_method = 'http';

// IP-resolvable FQDN of the server
$hostname = 'localhost';

// Path on that server to the CGI
$cgi = '/cgi-bin/ss/dbupload.cgi';

// Array of data. The foreach loop below is going to construct a field/data
// string like the one you see in the URL of a GET-method CGI.
$my_data = array (
'App' => '1',
'dbname' => 'products'
);

// This section constructs the field/value pairs of the form
// field1=value1&field2=value2&field3=value3
$data_string = " ";
$add_ampersand = FALSE;
foreach ($my_data as $key => $value)
{
if ($add_ampersand)
{
$data_string .= '&';
}
$data_string .= $key . '=' . $value;
$add_ampersand = TRUE;
}
//Set a file handle
$fp = fopen("/var/ "r");

// Get a CURL handle
$curl_handle = curl_init ();

// Tell CURL the URL of the CGI
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $HTTP_method . '://' . $hostname . $cgi);

curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD,"username:passwd");
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_INFILE,$fp);

echo "curl handle: " . $curl_handle . "\n";
// Perform the POST and get the data returned by the server.
$result = curl_exec($curl_handle) or die ("There has been an error");

// Close the CURL handle
curl_close ($curl_handle);

// Process the return
print $result;

?>

any input is welcome :)) thanks.
 
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Sorry, that's probably not going to do it.

According to the comments in the curl_setopt() online manual page, if you have a file on to upload named "foo.bar", then something like:

$post_fields = array ('file_to_upload" => '@foo.bar');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURL_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);

is all you have to do. This works with PHP 5.0.


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