cURL and XML - Missing something basic?

[Courtney L.]

I have a feeling there is just some basic info about exec that I do
not know. But I don't understand how to get back a response from a URL
using cURL (from the command line using exec()). Here's what I'm
trying to do: Sending some XML data to a URL (the Select Payment real
time gateway, if anyone's familiar...). Then I expect to get some XML
back.

Here's my code:
exec("/usr/local/bin/curl -m 120 -d \'$XPost\' https://$URL
-L",$output);

where $XPost is my XML
$output returns a blank array

If I try (just for kicks):
passthru("/usr/local/bin/curl -m 120 -d \'$XPost\' https://$URL
-L",$output);

then $output returns a 2.

Any help or direction is appreciated.

Thanks,
Courtney

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: cURL and XML - Missing something basic?

Hello,

On 10/25/2004 03:39 PM, Courtney L. wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a feeling there is just some basic info about exec that I do
> not know. But I don't understand how to get back a response from a URL
> using cURL (from the command line using exec()). Here's what I'm
> trying to do: Sending some XML data to a URL (the Select Payment real
> time gateway, if anyone's familiar...). Then I expect to get some XML
> back.[/color]

If all you want is to post a XML request to an SSL server, you may want
to try this HTTP client class that comes with examples to do exactly
what you want:

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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