post to https

matthaught

I am trying to figure out how to POST a message to a https server with the content-type set to application/xml and the content-length set to its length. The part I am having trouble with is the https part. Is there a way in which I can post to a SSL server? OpenSSL support, sockets, anything?
Thanks

Anon

The only way that I've found so far is to use the cURL library, you can either exec it or compile it into your PHP v4.0.2 or greater.

matthaught

Thanks, I finally got this to work with cURL. I had tried cURL a long time ago but gave up on getting it to work. Well I tried it again, and I found that the message I needed to post needed quotes in certain parts of the xml code that I had mistakenly took out to load it into an array. I just added slashes with the quotes and stripedslashes when I loaded it in cURL and everything worked. Something so simple, I have been working on this forever.

rtcary

Matt -

I am new to curl and I have it compiled into PHP. My task is to send POST data
via port 443 to a secure server and to get back a response. Do you have any
code that would help me with the syntax?

Todd

matthaught

Todd,
Here is the code that i used to access the ups tracking site.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, stripslashes($string));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.ups.com/ups.app/xml/Track");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

Thats pretty much a textbook example. The only thing that I had a problem with was that I was posting XML and had to addslashes to $string and strip them above. $result was what the site will return, you can process it just like any other string.

Anon

I am trying to use the exec command to execute curl to post xml to ups and I get the following error :

Error Code = 10002
Error Description = The XML document is well formed but the document is not valid
Error Location = AccessLicenseNumber

I don't think that the AccessLicenseNumber is really the problem since I just copied it directly from the e-mail.

The xml that I have is as follows :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<AccessRequest xml:lang="en-US">
<AccessLicenseNumber>*******</AccessLicenseNumber>
<UserId></UserId>
<Password>****</Password>
</AccessRequest>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RatingServiceSelectionRequest xml:lang="en-US">
<Request>
<TransactionReference>
<CustomerContext>Rating and Service</CustomerContext>
<XpciVersion>1.0001</XpciVersion>
</TransactionReference>
<RequestAction>Rate</RequestAction>
<RequestOption>shop</RequestOption>
</Request>
<PickupType>
<Code>01</Code>
</PickupType>
<Shipment>
<Shipper>
<Address>
<PostalCode>30076</PostalCode>
</Address>
</Shipper>
<ShipTo>
<Address>
<PostalCode>30041</PostalCode>
</Address>
</ShipTo>
<Service>
<Code>11</Code>
</Service>
<Package>
<PackagingType>
<Code>02</Code>
<Description>Package</Description>
</PackagingType>
<Description>Rate Shopping</Description>
<PackageWeight>
<Weight>33</Weight>
</PackageWeight>
</Package>
<ShipmentServiceOptions/>
</Shipment>
</RatingServiceSelectionRequest>

the code that I use to send it is very simple. It is as follows :

$xmlstring = implode('', file("test.xml"));

exec("curl -d \"$xmlstring\" https://www.ups.com/ups.app/xml/Rate", $arrResponse);

$responsestring = implode('', $arrResponse);

Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks.

Anon

I got your example to work, by changing your quotes in your params form double to single:

YOU HAVE:
exec("curl -d \"$xmlstring\" https://www.ups.com/ups.app/xml/Rate", $arrResponse);

WHAT I DID:
exec("curl -d '$xmlstring' https://www.ups.com/ups.app/xml/Rate", $arrResponse);

🙂