cURL problems

[netfrugal]

I am having the biggest issue with sending data via cURL. Below is a cURL statement that does NOT work. But has worked for other incidents in the past, with different servers.

$data = "?user=username";
$data .= "&password=123456";
$data .= "&date=2008-12-01";
$data .= "&FirstName=JOHN";
$data .= "&LastName=SMITH";



$ch = curl_init('http://www.website.asp'); 


curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, '1800'); 

Now, if I make this small change, by adding the data variables after the website url, it starts to work!

For example:

$data .= "&password=123456";
$data .= "&date=2008-12-01";
$data .= "&FirstName=JOHN";
$data .= "&LastName=SMITH";

  $ch = curl_init('http://www.website.asp'.$data);  // added $data here!

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, '1800'); 

Anyone have an idea why that is? Any insight would be handy. 🙂

[NogDog]

Does the URL you are accessing expect the data as GET or POST data (or either)?

Appending the data to the URL makes it GET data, using the postfields method sends it as POST data.