Hello All,
Minor rant mixed with a question. Please bear with me.
I have a PHP app which I really wanted to run on GAE. However, this app
makes extensive use of cURL, which was unsupported by Google. When Google
announced that AppEngine 1.9.18 would support cURL, I was very happy.
Upgraded, rewrote app.yaml, php.ini, yadda, yadda, yadda and run... No use
and the most peculiar behaviour.
// begin CURL routine
$chv = curl_init();
$header[0] = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;
charset=ISO-8859-1";
$header[] = "Accept: */*";
//$user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8;
rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0";
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
//curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_REFERER, '');
//curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip, deflate');
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($chv, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFields);
$html = curl_exec($chv); // execute the curl command
CakeLog::write('debug',"CURL:".$html);
/* If there is some error in CURL, relay it to View
Essentially, we will abort "nicely" and log the CURL error in JS
Console to help debugging */
$curl_errno = curl_errno($chv);
$curl_error = curl_error($chv);
This is a fairly standard cURL POST routine. All variables are correctly
and properly set. Now what happens is pretty bizarre; cURL RETRIEVES the
page content ($html returns the correct page!), but $curl_errno/$curl_error
are set to "3" and "No URL set"... Needless to say, this completely breaks
error handling...
Investigation showed that Google's cURL support is actually a code layer
for URL Fetch, so my guess is that this is what's causing the problem.
Can anybody provide some light?
(now the rant...) Since I am running out of time to release the app, I
don't really have the time (and patience) to debug Google's CurlLite, so I
guess Amazon will win... That said I am somewhat disappointed that Google
chose to insist in using URL fetch instead of using native cURL, which has
been used for years by the community and it's been proven simple, quick and
secure so far. Ah well... so much for ranting... back to work... :)
Thanks in advance!
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