Need help with cURL

[SharkBait]

Ok I have an weird issue and I am trying to figure out why it is working on my development server at home and not my live server.

 

DevServer:

PHP Version 5.2.3

cURL Version: 7.16.4

 

curl_getinfo($ch):

[url] => http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml
    [content_type] => application/xml; charset=utf-8
    [http_code] => 200
    [header_size] => 717
    [request_size] => 260
    [filetime] => -1
    [ssl_verify_result] => 0
    [redirect_count] => 0
    [total_time] => 0.199514
    [namelookup_time] => 0.050506
    [connect_time] => 0.086238
    [pretransfer_time] => 0.086274
    [size_upload] => 0
    [size_download] => 1286
    [speed_download] => 6445
    [speed_upload] => 0
    [download_content_length] => 1286
    [upload_content_length] => 0
    [starttransfer_time] => 0.19862
    [redirect_time] => 0

 

Live Server:

PHP Version 5.2.6

cURL VersioN: 7.18.2

 

curl_getinfo($ch):

[url] => http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml
    [content_type] => application/xml; charset=utf-8
    [http_code] => 200
    [header_size] => 717
    [request_size] => 260
    [filetime] => -1
    [ssl_verify_result] => 0
    [redirect_count] => 0
    [total_time] => 0.199514
    [namelookup_time] => 0.050506
    [connect_time] => 0.086238
    [pretransfer_time] => 0.086274
    [size_upload] => 0
    [size_download] => 1286
    [speed_download] => 6445
    [speed_upload] => 0
    [download_content_length] => 1286
    [upload_content_length] => 0
    [starttransfer_time] => 0.19862
    [redirect_time] => 0

 

This is the script:

<?php
$text = 'This is a lot of fun right?';

$ch = curl_init('http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml');

$userpwd = "{$username}:{$password}";

$data = 'user=' . $target . '&text=' . urlencode($text);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $userpwd); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $twit_plugin_name .' '. $twit_plugin_ver);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$response = curl_exec($ch); 
?>

 

According to the live server it is not getting any POST information and I am not sure why.  Is there an option in php.ini or something that might be forcing PHP cURL to use GET and not POST?

 

Now I have set data as a STRING and as an ARRAY and both return the same error message on my Live Server.

 

What am I missing? What other things can I look for?

 

 

[Third_Degree]

Things that could be your problem (but most likely not):

 

1)Seems strange to be HTTP posting to an .xml file. Sure this is correct?

 

2)You don't have definitions for a few of the variables, but I assume they are defined earlier in your script?

 

3)Are all the parameters necessary? Try it with just the userpwd, post, and postfields...

 

My solution:

Try forming an HTTP request with fsockopen and sending headers with fwrite/fputs instead of cURL.

[SharkBait]

i was following Twitter's API with HTTP to an XML file.

 

But with more investigation it might be an issue with a newer version of the libcURL which I think has issues with sending data after being redirected in the case of say load balancing.

 

I tried the script on 3 servers in total. The live server has a newer version of the libcURL whereas the 2 other servers are back a few revisions.

 

But I will try using an fsockopen and seeing what i get. Thanks for the suggestion!