this php/curl problem has been unsolved for 2 months...

i have a problem similar to this guy

http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtop...89757&p=492636

using verbose output, i see that LINUX webserver is making GET where as in windows localhost (Wampserver), it used POST. i also test it out on a windows server, and the script works fine....

of course, the script running on linux executes fine, but because its using GET, it fails.

the windows one succeeds because it uses POST method, as it should.

it uses LIB_http.php, a library from a php book.

i heard that setting CURLOPT_POST after CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, causes problems....i discovered that post was after curlop_postfields as below....maybe this was causing problems in linux webserver?

<?php
define("WEBBOT_NAME", "Googlebot/2.1 (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)");


define("CURL_TIMEOUT", 200);


define("COOKIE_FILE", "C:/wamp/www/tor/cookie.txt");
define("HEAD", "HEAD");
define("GET",  "GET");
define("POST", "POST");


define("EXCL_HEAD", FALSE);
define("INCL_HEAD", TRUE);


function http_get($target, $ref)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="GET", $data_array="", EXCL_HEAD);
    }


function http_get_withheader($target, $ref)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="GET", $data_array="", INCL_HEAD);
    }


function http_get_form($target, $ref, $data_array)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="GET", $data_array, EXCL_HEAD);
    }


function http_get_form_withheader($target, $ref, $data_array)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="GET", $data_array, INCL_HEAD);
    }


function http_post_form($target, $ref, $data_array)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="POST", $data_array, EXCL_HEAD);
    }

function http_post_withheader($target, $ref, $data_array)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="POST", $data_array, INCL_HEAD);
    }

function http_header($target, $ref)
    {
    return http($target, $ref, $method="HEAD", $data_array="", INCL_HEAD);
    }


function http($target, $ref, $method, $data_array, $incl_head)
    {
    # Initialize PHP/CURL handle
    $ch = curl_init();

    # Prcess data, if presented
    if(is_array($data_array))
        {
        # Convert data array into a query string (ie animal=dog&sport=baseball)
        foreach ($data_array as $key => $value)
            {
            if(strlen(trim($value))>0)
                $temp_string[] = $key . "=" . urlencode($value);
            else
                $temp_string[] = $key;
            }
        $query_string = join('&', $temp_string);
        }
        
    # HEAD method configuration
    if($method == HEAD)
        {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);                // No http head
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);                // Return body
        }
    else
        {
        # GET method configuration
        if($method == GET)
            {
            if(isset($query_string))
                $target = $target . "?" . $query_string;
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, TRUE);
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, FALSE);
            }
        # POST method configuration
        if($method == POST)
            {
            if(isset($query_string))
                curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $query_string);
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, FALSE);
            }
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $incl_head);   // Include head as needed
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, FALSE);        // Return body
        }
        
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, COOKIE_FILE);   // Cookie management.
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, COOKIE_FILE);
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "127.0.0.1:8118"); // ENABLE TOR
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, CURL_TIMEOUT);    // Timeout
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, WEBBOT_NAME);   // Webbot name
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target);             // Target site
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $ref);            // Referer value
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, FALSE);           // Minimize logs
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);    // No certificate
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);     // Follow redirects
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 4);             // Limit redirections to four
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);     // Return in string
  
    # Create return array
    $return_array['FILE']   = curl_exec($ch);
    $return_array['STATUS'] = curl_getinfo($ch);
    $return_array['ERROR']  = curl_error($ch);
    
    # Close PHP/CURL handle
      curl_close($ch);
    
    # Return results
      return $return_array;
    }
    
    
?> 

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