Re: Submitting form with strange __multiselect parameters

you have to urlencode POST dataif you use the option "'Content-Type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

the "-urlencoded" there is a big clue :)

so change > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $str_postdata);

to

> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, urlencode($str_postdata));

Cheers

Scott


On 7 August 2013 20:06, Oscar Vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Waruna!
>
> thanks for you answer.
>
> Here is the code that I'm using currently:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> $cookieFile="/tmp/cookie";
>
> $ch = curl_init();
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookieFile);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookieFile);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.some.url/submitSearch.action");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));
>
> // The string is exactly the same that the one generated by the browser
> $str_postdata="submissionType=pd&from_Date_Prj=JUN-2013&to_Date_Prj=JUN-2013&__multiselect_projectNameList=&__multiselect_selectedProjects=&propertyType=ac&from_Date=MAY-2013&to_Date=JUN-2013&__multiselect_postalDistrictList=&selectedPostalDistricts=01&selectedPostalDistricts=02&selectedPostalDistricts=03&__multiselect_selectedPostalDistricts=";
>
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $str_postdata);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, 1);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
>
> curl_exec($ch);
>
> $info = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT);
>
> echo $info;
>
> curl_close($ch);
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> The content of $info is
>
>
> POST /submitSearch.action HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.ura.gov.sg
> Accept: */*
> Accept-Encoding: gzip
> Cookie: BIGipServerpl-prod_iplanet_http_v4=214476992.20480.0000;
> JSESSIONID=vjyWSCpX2G9V1tKpTTHxcZh0t9nTyyqtjC291JrtXJC1vk70m0xm!-1705297486
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> Content-Length: 330
>
>
> Hopefully it can give some clue about why the post to the form is not
> working.
> If I can add some other valuable info, please just ask me :)
>
> Thanks in advance!!
> Oscar
>
>
>
> On 7 August 2013 17:44, Waruna Geekiyanage <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> submit your PHP/cURL code, so that we can give a clear answer.
>>
>> Use following settings to submit POST data
>>             curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
>>             curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $arr_postdata);
>>
>> $arr_postdata - field name as key and field data as value
>>
>> use following setting for debugging
>>
>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, 1);
>> $info = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT);
>>
>> $info will give the request headers.
>>
>> Thank You,
>> Waruna Geekiyanage
>>
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>> On 8/7/2013 2:32 PM, Oscar Vidal wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to submit a (java servlet) form using CURL in PHP, but it seems
>> like there is a problem with the parameters. I cant really understand why
>> its happening since I'm testing the CURL with a identical string parameters
>> that is being used by the browser.
>>
>> After some research in diverse forums I wasn't able to find a solution to
>> my particular problem.
>>
>> this is the POSTFIELDS string generated by the browser (and working):
>>
>>
>> submissionType=pd&__multiselect_PostCodeList=&selectedPostCode=01&selectedPostCode=02&selectedPostCode=03&__multiselect_selectedPostCodes=
>>
>> and I'm using and identical (for testing) string in the PHP script but it
>> im getting a HTML file as a answers telling "Missing parameters in search
>> query".
>>
>> I believe that the form
>>
>> __multiselect_PostCodeList=
>> &selectedPostCode=01
>> &selectedPostCode=02
>> &selectedPostCode=03
>> &__multiselect_selectedPostCodes=
>>
>> is quite wired (never see before this) and I'm wondering that it can be
>> the reason of why the post is not working from CURL.
>>
>> The form seems to be successfully submitted since I'm getting this header
>>
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:02:56 GMT
>> Content-length: 1791
>> Content-type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
>> X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.4 JSP/2.0
>> Vary: Accept-Encoding
>> Content-Encoding: gzip
>> Connection: Keep-Alive
>>
>> Note: I tried submitting the same form from Lynx and I'm also getting the
>> same result ("Missing parameters in search query"). So it seems like its
>> only working with browsers like Mozilla or Chrome.
>>
>> Please some help will be really appreciated, I don't have any more ideas
>> at this point.
>>
>> Thanks! Oscar
>>
>>
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