Question

I am using curl to post XML to a webservice. The code is below:

exec("/usr/bin/curl -s -m 120 -d  \"$xml\" $URL -L", $return_message_array, $return_number);

I want to add this custom header to it:

$headers = array(            
        "Content-type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8",
        "SOAPAction: http://loantree.com/webservices/InsertLead",
    );

I have tried:

exec("/usr/bin/curl -s -m 120 -H $headers -d  \"$xml\" $URL -L", $return_message_array, $return_number);

But that just returns the page I’m trying to post to. Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

Answer 1

Headers for curl are set with the -H option, which can be used multiple times:

curl -H "Header-1: Value" -H "Header-2: Value" http://example.com

Note: If installed, PHP has a curl library. So you don’t have to use exec().