[PHP] Sending multipart/form-data request with PECL.
I am trying to submit a request to an HTTP server with multipart/form-data encoded data. I'm using PECL's HttpRequest (although I'm open to alternatives). I am using PHP5. I noticed that if you call addPostFile to add a file, PECL will send the file, and all other post parameters, with multipart/form-data encoding, so I know PECL has the capability to do it. If you simply call addPostFields but never call addPostFile, it uses standard post encoding. Is there a way to force PECL to use multipart/form-data encoding for all post fields added with addPostFields, even when you are not calling addPostFile to add a file? If not, is there another good way to encode multipart data with PHP? Thanks! Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Sending multipart/form-data request with PECL.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote:
Jason Cipriani wrote:
Is there a way to force PECL to use multipart/form-data encoding for
all post fields added with addPostFields, even when you are not
calling addPostFile to add a file?
Try: setContentType()
Thanks! But, I tried that, and according to my packet sniffer, calling
setContentType() actually seems to have no effect whatsoever on the
request! Is there something I have to enable? Here's an example, it's
just a fake request, used to see what HttpRequest outputs:
$fields = array(field=value,other=something)
$http_req = new HttpRequest('http://localhost:/resource');
$http_req-setMethod(HTTP_METH_POST);
$http_req-setContentType('multipart/form-data');
$http_req-addPostFields($fields);
$http_req-send();
Here is what it produces, it's still application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
=== BEGIN REQUEST ===
POST /resource HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: PECL::HTTP/1.6.1-dev (PHP/5.2.6)
Host: localhost:
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 27
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
field=valueother=something
=== END REQUEST ===
Even if I call setContentType with some made up content type, it
doesn't affect the output; am I doing something wrong there?
Thanks!
Jason
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Re: [PHP] Re: Sending multipart/form-data request with PECL.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote:
Jason Cipriani wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote:
Jason Cipriani wrote:
Is there a way to force PECL to use multipart/form-data encoding for
all post fields added with addPostFields, even when you are not
calling addPostFile to add a file?
Try: setContentType()
Thanks! But, I tried that, and according to my packet sniffer, calling
setContentType() actually seems to have no effect whatsoever on the
request! Is there something I have to enable? Here's an example, it's
just a fake request, used to see what HttpRequest outputs:
$fields = array(field=value,other=something)
$http_req = new HttpRequest('http://localhost:/resource');
$http_req-setMethod(HTTP_METH_POST);
$http_req-setContentType('multipart/form-data');
$http_req-addPostFields($fields);
$http_req-send();
Here is what it produces, it's still application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
=== BEGIN REQUEST ===
POST /resource HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: PECL::HTTP/1.6.1-dev (PHP/5.2.6)
Host: localhost:
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 27
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
field=valueother=something
=== END REQUEST ===
Even if I call setContentType with some made up content type, it
doesn't affect the output; am I doing something wrong there?
Thanks!
Jason
I don't know. I just looked it up in the manual. If it doesn't work
then it may be a bug. Hard to tell because the documentation for
httprequest is very light.
Thanks. I actually had a look at the HttpRequest source code, and I
can see the logic where it switches to multipart encoding if files are
present but it actually appears that it's not possible to force it to
do that. It's sort of annoying that it's right at my finger tips but
there's no way to do it, and for sort of a silly reason (there's
arbitrarily no way to pick which encoding to use, it decides for you
even though it has the capability of doing anything). A custom PECL
build is not an option, unfortunately.
I'll have to check out the httpclient class that Manuel Lemos mentioned.
Thanks,
Jason
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Re: [PHP] Re: Sending multipart/form-data request with PECL.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Manuel Lemos mle...@acm.org wrote: Hello, on 03/05/2009 02:31 AM Jason Cipriani said the following: Thanks. I actually had a look at the HttpRequest source code, and I can see the logic where it switches to multipart encoding if files are present but it actually appears that it's not possible to force it to do that. It's sort of annoying that it's right at my finger tips but there's no way to do it, and for sort of a silly reason (there's arbitrarily no way to pick which encoding to use, it decides for you even though it has the capability of doing anything). A custom PECL build is not an option, unfortunately. I'll have to check out the httpclient class that Manuel Lemos mentioned. Yes, the HTTP client class follows the same logic but has a variable named force_multipart_form_post that you can set to make it send multipart form posts as if you were submitting a form with an empty file input. Thanks; is there documentation for this anywhere? Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Sending multipart/form-data request with PECL.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Manuel Lemos mle...@acm.org wrote: Hello Jason, on 03/05/2009 03:17 AM Jason Cipriani said the following: Thanks. I actually had a look at the HttpRequest source code, and I can see the logic where it switches to multipart encoding if files are present but it actually appears that it's not possible to force it to do that. It's sort of annoying that it's right at my finger tips but there's no way to do it, and for sort of a silly reason (there's arbitrarily no way to pick which encoding to use, it decides for you even though it has the capability of doing anything). A custom PECL build is not an option, unfortunately. I'll have to check out the httpclient class that Manuel Lemos mentioned. Yes, the HTTP client class follows the same logic but has a variable named force_multipart_form_post that you can set to make it send multipart form posts as if you were submitting a form with an empty file input. Thanks; is there documentation for this anywhere? Sorry, not yet, but the example scripts have plenty of commented code that pretty much explains how to do what you need. For sending POST requests, take a look at the test_http_post.php example script. For further support requests about this class, try the support forum: http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/3/ Awesome, thanks. The code was clear enough that I was able to make it work pretty easily. It seems to be doing everything that I want. Nice work! Thanks again! Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] [PHP 5.2.8] Retrieve cookies from remote host and pass them back to client.
I have a PHP 5.2.8 web application that needs to retrieve a resource from a remote URL. However, the remote host also sends a cookie back (in a Set-Cookie header), and I need to grab that cookie and pass it on to the client (so that it's stored by the client browser). I do know the name of the cookie beforehand. What is the best way to do this? Passing a cookie from PHP back to the client is easy, it's grabbing the cookie from the remote URL that is the problem. There is no support for cookies in file_get_contents(), so that won't work. I can use curl to retrieve the remote URL with headers, but curl does not seem to provide an easy way to get the value of the cookie beyond retrieving the HTTP headers and parsing them manually. I could use and parse curl's cookie file (another hack) but the cookie contains a value that is randomly generated, and the cookies in curl's cookie jar are global to all PHP requests (so if multiple users made the same request, their cookie value could be shared). How can I retrieve the contents of a remote resource as well as the value of a cookie sent with that resource? Thanks, Jason P.S.: Also, as a minor side question; how, if at all, would the method for doing this be different in PHP 4.4.9? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] [PHP 5.2.8] Retrieve cookies from remote host and pass them back to client.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Jason Cipriani jason.cipri...@gmail.com wrote: I have a PHP 5.2.8 web application that needs to retrieve a resource from a remote URL. However, the remote host also sends a cookie back (in a Set-Cookie header), and I need to grab that cookie and pass it on to the client (so that it's stored by the client browser). I do know the name of the cookie beforehand. What is the best way to do this? Passing a cookie from PHP back to the client is easy, it's grabbing the cookie from the remote URL that is the problem. There is no support for cookies in file_get_contents(), so that won't work. I can use curl to retrieve the remote URL with headers, but curl does not seem to provide an easy way to get the value of the cookie beyond retrieving the HTTP headers and parsing them manually. I could use and parse curl's cookie file (another hack) but the cookie contains a value that is randomly generated, and the cookies in curl's cookie jar are global to all PHP requests (so if multiple users made the same request, their cookie value could be shared). How can I retrieve the contents of a remote resource as well as the value of a cookie sent with that resource? Thanks, Jason P.S.: Also, as a minor side question; how, if at all, would the method for doing this be different in PHP 4.4.9? I usually use the HttpRequest for this type of stuff, but it only works with PHP 5.0/5.1 and greater. Otherwise, CURL is the next easiest, followed by direct socket connections. Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for. I've managed to get everything working well with HttpRequest. Cheers, Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
