Re: POST with HEAD?
Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Stephen Pynenburg wrote: > I encountered this behaviour a while ago - not sure why, but it seems you're > correct in saying that CURLOPT_POST and _NOBODY don't go together well. The > solution that worked for me was very simple: just use curl_setopt($ch, > CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST") instead of setting CURLOPT_POST. Let me just warn you when doing this. The NOBODY option implies a HEAD request when you do it with HTTP. A HEAD request MUST NOT have a response body and thus libcurl will not read any such. A POST response almost always have a body, and you can tell libcurl to abort the reading of that by returning something appropriate from a callback or similar. By using NOBODY but setting CUSTOMREQUEST to "POST", you're basically telling libcurl to do a HEAD but to replace the method name. This may work fine, but you should then remember that libcurl will still internally work as if it is indeed a HEAD request. -- / daniel.haxx.se _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/curl-and-php