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Posted by Andy Hassall on 07/01/06 13:06
On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:41:48 +0100, Bonge Boo! <bingbong@spamcop.net> wrote:
>On 1/7/06 12:51, in article sboca2l84durjq31cabk3j3l7q7l67ibbo@4ax.com,
>"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> I'm trying to query a form using curl, so that I can manipulate the data it
>>> returns before pushing it to the browser.
>>>
>>> If I just use a normal POST form it work fine. However if I use curl() then
>>> the script gives an error. One things that springs to mind is the length of
>>> the POST data. Its really long. So long if I try to use file_get_contents()
>>> it complains.
>>
>> What's the error?
>
>I think it might have been a urlencode error on my part.
What's the error? As in the error message?
>>> Is there any restriction on how long the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS can be?
>>>
>>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, urlencode($query));
>>
>> Shouldn't be in cURL, but you could well be hitting PHP memory limits. How
>> big
>> is $query?
>
>Not that huge. About 400 characters.
>
>A copy of a GET string below
>
>http://www.blahbh.com/zippo/Search.ASP?WCI=AddToPortFolio%26PAGE%3D1%26DEL%3
>D%26PropertyID%3D00595876%26GTYP%3D0%26ID%3D0009185%26PER%3D10%26XSLT%3D-1%2
>6GID%3D580%26SQL%3D2+AND+Property.EstateAgentID+%3D+580+AND+%28Property.Inst
>ructionLevel+%3C+2%29+AND+%28%28Property.Price+%2A+CurrencyConversion.Value%
>29+%3C%3D+99000000+AND+%28Property.Price+%2A+CurrencyConversion.Value%29+%3E
>%3D+0%29%29+AND+Property.Price+%3C%3D+300000
Are you sure the server accepts POST for the page?
>I think it must be a misunderstanding on my part about using curl(). If you
>have a moment, and don't mind, could you take a look through this and look
>for any screamers?
>
>$query .= "&PAGE=1";
> $query .= "&DEL=";
> $query .= "&PropertyID=00595876";
> $query .= ">YP=0";
> $query .= "&ID=0000000";
> $query .= "&PER=10";
> $query .= "&XSLT=-1";
> $query .= "&GID=400";
> $query .= "&SQL=2 AND Property.EstateAgentID = 580 AND
>(Property.InstructionLevel < 2) AND ((Property.Price *
>CurrencyConversion.Value) <= 99000000 AND (Property.Price *
>CurrencyConversion.Value) >= 0)) AND Property.Price <= 300000";
>
>// create a new curl resource
> $ch = curl_init();
> // set URL and other appropriate options
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.blahbl.com/
>zippo/Search.ASP?WCI=AddToPortFolio");
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, urlencode($dezrez_query));
You've just encoded all the "&" and "=" separators; you should be encoding the
keys and values separately and joining them up with "&" and "=".
--
Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
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