RAW POST using cURL in PHP

Question

How can I do a RAW POST in PHP using cURL?

Raw post as in without any encoding, and my data is stored in a string. The data should be formatted like this:

... usual HTTP header ...
Content-Length: 1039
Content-Type: text/plain

89c5fdataasdhf kajshfd akjshfksa hfdkjsa falkjshfsa
ajshd fkjsahfd lkjsahflksahfdlkashfhsadkjfsalhfd
ajshdfhsafiahfiuwhflsf this is just data from a string
more data kjahfdhsakjfhsalkjfdhalksfd

One option is to manually write the entire HTTP header being sent, but that seems less optimal.

Anyway, can I just pass options to curl_setopt() that say use POST, use text/plain, and send the raw data from a $variable?

Dharman · Accepted Answer · 2024-07-19 18:34:46Z

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I just found the solution:

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,            "http://url/url/url" );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,           1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,     "body goes here" ); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,     array('Content-Type: text/plain')); 

$result = curl_exec($ch);

edited Jul 19, 2024 at 18:34

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10 Comments

Eric Bloch Over a year ago

will php set the content-length header for you or should you set that as well?

James Over a year ago

I cannot get this to work at all. I have a page that I am trying to post raw data to. That page records all raw data it receives into a database table. There are no new rows at all. Do you know if anything has changed here since '09?

xryl669 Over a year ago

This works for me, without specifying any HTTP header.

shasi kanth Over a year ago

I just realized that body goes here can include any valid json string.

Kaden Yealy Over a year ago

There is a 2G limit for this raw post. If you attempt to send file larger than 2G they will be truncated back to 2G. Its a limitation of the string type being loaded.

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Serhii Andriichuk · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-24 18:21:57Z

Implementation with Guzzle library:

use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions;

$httpClient = new Client();

$response = $httpClient->post(
    'https://postman-echo.com/post',
    [
        RequestOptions::BODY => 'POST raw request content',
        RequestOptions::HEADERS => [
            'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        ],
    ]
);

echo(
    $response->getBody()->getContents()
);

PHP CURL extension:

$curlHandler = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curlHandler, [
    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://postman-echo.com/post',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,

    /**
     * Specify POST method
     */
    CURLOPT_POST => true,

    /**
     * Specify request content
     */
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => 'POST raw request content',
]);

$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);

curl_close($curlHandler);

echo($response);

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