Question

I’m trying to test a rest api for upload a local file to a https url. I am currently using curl to do it. The problem is that my POST in curl is getting converted into PUT (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html) mentions the same.
To test from command line I’m using the following:

curl -H “Content-Type: application/json” -H “Authorization:Bearer XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXYYYYYzzzzzz” -H “Accept-Version: ~1” -H “Except: 100-continue” -H “Accept-Version: ~1 ” -T “somefile.pdf” “https://abc-xyz.co/docs”

Output:

{"code":"BadMethod","message":"/docs does not support PUT"}

my php code:

$url = '"https://abc-xyz.co/docs';
$filepath = '/Users/me/Documents/somefile.pdf'; //mac path
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST" ); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,  
array('Authorization: Bearer XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXYYYYYzzzzzz', 'Accept-Version: ~1', 'Except: 100-continue'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
$file = "@".$filepath;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$file); 
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if(!CURL_ERROR($ch))
  {      
  echo"\n The output is:".$response;
  }
else
  {
  echo "\nUpload failed ".curl_error($ch);
  exit;
  } 
curl_close($ch);

Output: I get parse error.

Can some one educate me with 3 things:

1. Can I use curl to do POST for https? if yes, how? and if no what should my approach be?
2. How to pass the file path name in my php? I tried “@”.$filepath too but it still doesn’t like it.
3. If I want to restrict my file upload type to be only pdf should i be using mime type? (application/pdf????)

Thanks,
DR

Answer 1

From the commandline, see post fileupload with curl.

From PHP, see the manual

The full data to post in a HTTP “POST” operation. To post a file, prepend a filename with @ and use the full path. The filetype can be explicitly specified by following the filename with the type in the format ‘;type=mimetype’. This parameter can either be passed as a urlencoded string like ‘para1=val1&para2=val2&…’ or as an array with the field name as key and field data as value. If value is an array, the Content-Type header will be set to multipart/form-data. As of PHP 5.2.0, value must be an array if files are passed to this option with the @ prefix.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,array('someuploadname'=> "@".$filepath));