curl php script works on localhost windows, but not on linux server

[jjk2]

i have a simple curl script thats proven to work. it basically logs in to ebay.com

 

it runs fine on commandline through WAMPserver running on my windows, and my other windows servers, but it will not work on any linux server.

 

the script executes, but the result is that i am not logged on to ebay when i run the script on linux server.

[trq]

Have you got error reporting on and if so, do you get an error?

[jjk2]

i get no error whatsoever.....

[priti]

have you checked you error_log on server. If the request is not served then error_logs will contain some pointers for you.

 

Thanks

 

 

[GingerRobot]

And you did turn on error_reporting, yes? It could be that the cURL extension wasn't installed, for example. Since you're logging into ebay, it could also be an SSL issue - are you ignoring ebay's certificate or providing certificates to verify against? Are you checking the return of curl_error()? Basically, we could do with seeing some code.

[jjk2]

hi this is the problem....exact same thing

 

http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89757&p=492636

 

[jjk2]

i have a problem similar to this guy

 

http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89757&p=492636

 

using verbose output, i see that LINUX webserver is making GET where as in windows localhost (Wampserver), it used POST. i also test it out on a windows server, and the script works fine....

 

of course, the script running on linux executes fine, but because its using GET, it fails.

 

the windows one succeeds because it uses POST method, as it should.

 

it uses LIB_http.php, a library from a php book.

 

i heard that setting CURLOPT_POST after CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, causes problems....i discovered that post was after curlop_postfields as below....maybe this was causing problems in linux webserver?

 

<?php
define("WEBBOT_NAME", "Googlebot/2.1 (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)");


define("CURL_TIMEOUT", 200);


define("COOKIE_FILE", "C:/wamp/www/tor/cookie.txt");
define("HEAD", "HEAD");
define("GET",  "GET");
define("POST", "POST");


define("EXCL_HEAD", FALSE);
define("INCL_HEAD", TRUE);


function http_get($target, $ref)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="GET", $data_array="", EXCL_HEAD);
    }


function http_get_withheader($target, $ref)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="GET", $data_array="", INCL_HEAD);
    }


function http_get_form($target, $ref, $data_array)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="GET", $data_array, EXCL_HEAD);
    }


function http_get_form_withheader($target, $ref, $data_array)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="GET", $data_array, INCL_HEAD);
    }


function http_post_form($target, $ref, $data_array)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="POST", $data_array, EXCL_HEAD);
    }

function http_post_withheader($target, $ref, $data_array)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="POST", $data_array, INCL_HEAD);
    }

function http_header($target, $ref)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="HEAD", $data_array="", INCL_HEAD);
    }


function http($target, $ref, $method, $data_array, $incl_head)
{
    # Initialize PHP/CURL handle
$ch = curl_init();

    # Prcess data, if presented
    if(is_array($data_array))
        {
    # Convert data array into a query string (ie animal=dog&sport=baseball)
        foreach ($data_array as $key => $value) 
            {
            if(strlen(trim($value))>0)
                $temp_string[] = $key . "=" . urlencode($value);
            else
                $temp_string[] = $key;
            }
        $query_string = join('&', $temp_string);
        }
        
    # HEAD method configuration
    if($method == HEAD)
        {
    	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);                // No http head
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);                // Return body
        }
    else
        {
        # GET method configuration
        if($method == GET)
            {
            if(isset($query_string))
                $target = $target . "?" . $query_string;
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, TRUE); 
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, FALSE); 
            }
        # POST method configuration
        if($method == POST)
            {
            if(isset($query_string))
                curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $query_string);
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE); 
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, FALSE); 
            }
    	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $incl_head);   // Include head as needed
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, FALSE);        // Return body
        }
        
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, COOKIE_FILE);   // Cookie management.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, COOKIE_FILE);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "127.0.0.1:8118"); // ENABLE TOR
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, CURL_TIMEOUT);    // Timeout
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, WEBBOT_NAME);   // Webbot name
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target);             // Target site
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $ref);            // Referer value
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, FALSE);           // Minimize logs
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);    // No certificate
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);     // Follow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 4);             // Limit redirections to four
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);     // Return in string
  
    # Create return array
    $return_array['FILE']   = curl_exec($ch); 
    $return_array['STATUS'] = curl_getinfo($ch);
    $return_array['ERROR']  = curl_error($ch);
    
    # Close PHP/CURL handle
  	curl_close($ch);
    
    # Return results
  	return $return_array;
    }
    
    
?>

 

 

 

 

[jjk2]

anyone >>????

[jjk2]

still waiting.....

[GingerRobot]

The only thing i can obviously see wrong is that all of these test on method:

 

if($method == HEAD)

 

Are using an unquoted string. They should be:

 

if($method == "HEAD")

 

Now, given the fact that you've not mentioned you're getting a warning about that, i'm going to assume that either you don't have error_reporting set to E_ALL or that you don't have display_errors turned on or both. Go do that and run the script again.

[thebadbad]

@Ginger

 

He defines those constants at the top of the script.

[GingerRobot]

You're right. I missed that.

[jjk2]

there is nothing in error_log.

 

the script works fine on windows.

 

but somehow the script behaves differently in linux. i've fixed 50% of it. just by moving some of the curlopt, apparently theres some bugs with curl.

 

so i am convinced lib_http has some problems.....just dont know why it fails when it uses POST.

[jjk2]

my mistake.....linux one is using libcurl 7.15.5

 

windows is using 7.16

[jjk2]

however i test it on libcurl 7.19, and still not sucessfull.