How to RAW POST huge XML file with curl - PHP
curl, http-post, php, post
Solution
I had a similar problem trying to feed huge ingestion files to elasticsearch's bulk API from PHP, until I realized that the bulk API endpoint accepted PUT requests. Anyway, this code performs POST requests with huge files:
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1 );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($tmpFile) );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, ($in=fopen($tmpFile, 'r')) );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST' );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [ 'Content-Type: application/json' ] );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($in);
Here, `$tmpFile` is the full path of the file containing the request body.
NOTE: The important part is setting `CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST` to `'POST'` even though `CURLOPT_PUT` is set.
You'd have to adapt the `Content-Type:` header to whatever the server is expecting.
Using tcpdump, I could confirm the request method to be POST:
POST /my_index/_bulk HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:9200
Accept: */*
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 167401
Expect: 100-continue
[...snip...]
I'm using packages libcurl3 (version 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5) and php5-curl (version 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.11) on Ubuntu 14.04.
Problem
is there a way of doing ``` curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/xml" --data @myfile.xml http://example.com ``` but directly in PHP? `CURLOPT_PUT`/`CURLOPT_UPLOAD` as well as `file_get_contents` as well as `exec` are not a solutions as it must be POST and the file is huge so must be streamed. Any ideas?