Posted by Benjamin on 12/29/06 21:18

zorro wrote:
> Ok I found the reason, hope this helps someone eventually:
>
> You can see headers sent by cURL by using
>
> $mydebug = fopen('debug.txt','w');
> curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_STDERR, $mydebug);
> curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
>
> I noticed those headers were different when posting with an array.
> Namely, there is a "Expect: 100-continue header" which basically tells
> the server that some content will be posted but only if the server
> responds back with "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" code. Why on the web site I
> was posting to the continuing doesn't happen automatically like on my
> testing servers i don't know. I tried setting headers like "Connection:
> keep-alive" but it didn't help. What did work though was removing the
> "Expect" header :
>
> curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
>
> So now cURL doesn't ask permission to post first but just posts
> directly.
thank you for noticing that

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