Error returned in curl response

[johnman]

Good day

I tried getting a json response using the below written code but instead it returned the following error message

{"Message":"The request entity's media type 'multipart/form-data' is not supported for this resource."}

see the code below

$mydata = array(
            'number1' => $_POST["customerNUM1"],
            'number2' => $_POST["sessionNUM1"],
        );
        $headers = array(
            'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
        );
        $ch = curl_init($url);
        //        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $this->cookie_jar);
        //        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, False);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, False);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,0);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $mydata);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
        $response = curl_exec($ch);
        $err = curl_error($ch);
        if ($err) {
            echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
        } else {
            echo $response;
        }

Kindly help

[johnman]

I edited the above code because the API endpoint is not included, it has been included in the below code

$mydata = array(
            'number1' => $_POST["customerNUM1"],
            'number2' => $_POST["sessionNUM1"],
        );
        $headers = array(
            'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
        );
        
        $url = "https://api2.creditregistry.com/nigeria/AutoCred/v7.Test/api/Customers/FindByBVN2";
        
        $ch = curl_init($url);
        //        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $this->cookie_jar);
        //        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, False);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, False);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,0);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $mydata);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
        $response = curl_exec($ch);
        $err = curl_error($ch);
        if ($err) {
            echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
        } else {
            echo $response;
        }

 

[requinix]

Setting POSTFIELDS to an array means cURL will encode your data in the "multipart" format. Apparently FindByBVN2 does not like that.

If you're supposed to send JSON data then you have to send JSON data.

[johnman]

@requinix thanks you for your reply i will rewrite the code