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[PHP-WIN] Re: cURL: curl_exec returning chopped up result on a POST operation From: Per (per_hekansson <email protected>)
Date: 07/11/02

John Palmer wrote:
> System:
>
> BSDI 4.1
> Apache 1.3.26
> PHP 4.1.2
> cURL 7.9.8
>
> I have the following function in PHP:
>
> function XMLExec($command)
> {
>
>
> $ch = curl_init();
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, http://host.name/.cgi-bin/cgiprogram);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $command);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
>
> $res = curl_exec($ch);
> curl_close($ch);
>
> return $res;
>
> }
>
>
> Really simple little thing. The CGI-BIN program is a C program that returns XML output. The first line
> is Content-type: text/html, then a blank line and then XML
>
> Problem: Sometimes, especially when the XML output is long (maybe 12k or so), the output that ends up in
> the $res string is all chopped up. Usually, the first part of the output is present, but then a huge chunk is
> missing and then a middle section is there and then the end of the output is chopped off.
>
> Has anyone seen this before? The only error that I can see is that when Apache starts, it whines about
> PHP not being compiled with EAPI. Other than that, no other problems.
>
> I'm wondering if there is a buffering problem somwhere but I havent found any mention of this
> on any lists
>
>
>

There has been a buffer problem with the curl module but it should be
fixed in CVS. I' not sure if this has anything to do with your problem.

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17963

/Per 

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