I just encountered this. 1) Find the cygwin setup.exe file from http://cygwin.com/ and run it. 2) Click/enter preferences until you reach the “Select Packages” window. (See image) 3) Click (+) for Net 4) Click the entry for curl. (Make sure you select the checkbox for the Binary) 5) Install. 6) Open a cygwin window and … Read more
According to documentation: to verify host or peer certificate you need to specify alternate certificates with the CURLOPT_CAINFO option or a certificate directory can be specified with the CURLOPT_CAPATH option. Also look at CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST: 1 to check the existence of a common name in the SSL peer certificate. 2 to check the existence of a … Read more
add the -s (silent) option to remove the progress meter, then redirect stderr to stdout to get verbose output on the same fd as the response body curl -vs google.com 2>&1 | less
I just found the solution, kind of answering to my own question in case anyone else stumbles upon it. $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://url/url/url” ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, “body goes here” ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(‘Content-Type: text/plain’)); $result = curl_exec($ch);
This can happen if curl is asked to do plain HTTP on a server that does HTTPS. Example: $ curl http://google.com:443 curl: (52) Empty reply from server
On Debian with Apache 2: apt-get install php5-curl /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (php4-curl if it’s php4)
curl‘s -w option and the sub variable url_effective is what you are looking for. Something like curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} http://google.com More info -L Follow redirects -s Silent mode. Don’t output anything -o FILE Write output to <file> instead of stdout -w FORMAT What to output after completion More You might want to … Read more
This should work : curl -i -H “Accept: application/json” ‘server:5050/a/c/getName{“param0″:”pradeep”}’ use option -i instead of x.
To make cURL follow a redirect, use: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); Erm… I don’t think you’re actually executing the curl… Try: curl_exec($ch); …after setting the options, and before the curl_getinfo() call. EDIT: If you just want to find out where a page redirects to, I’d use the advice here, and just use Curl to grab the … Read more
You can use the -o switch and null pseudo-file : Unix curl -s -o /dev/null -v http://google.com Windows curl -s -o nul -v http://google.com