PHP cURL does not send appropriate headers

Question

I'm trying to send some headers with cURL in PHP and the headers are not sending.

The code is:

$header = array('Referer: xxx',
        'Origin: xxx',
        'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Connection: keep-alive',
        'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3',
        'Cache-Control: max-age=0',
        'Except:');

and using this:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$t = curl_exec($ch);

$sentHeaders = curl_getinfo($ch);

var_dump($sentHeaders);

and in the dump I didn't see Origin, content-type, referrer and nothing... I'm trying to send a POST and it isn't sending.

What I am doing wrong?

edited: Now POST isn't sending:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$t = curl_exec($ch);

What means im trying to send POST and nothing too? what shows curl_error($ch);, whats the $t content after the request? How do you know POST is not working? — Ranty
– Ranty, Commented Nov 24, 2012 at 9:22
curl_error is empty, in $t i have a form, demostrating post isn't send (sorry for the english) — kaseOga
– kaseOga, Commented Nov 24, 2012 at 18:00
Use brower addon like HttpFox to find out the difference with your request through curl and the one you browser does. — Ranty
– Ranty, Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 8:28

Steven Moseley · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-24 02:53:43Z

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Add this option to see the request headers in the getinfo call:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);

answered Nov 24, 2012 at 2:53

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kaseOga Over a year ago

ooh thank you! now i see, but the post isn't working and didn't know why, edited code with post functions

Deniz Celebi · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-14 16:02:14Z

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Regarding your POST problem: be sure to use http_build_query(). So it needs to be in your code:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data) );

Hope it helps

answered Jul 14, 2015 at 16:02

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ymakux Over a year ago

Wrong. You can pass an array directly

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