CURL context options

CURL context options — CURL context option listing

Description

CURL context options are available when the CURL extension was compiled using the --with-curlwrappers configure option.

Options

method string

GET, POST, or any other HTTP method supported by the remote server.

Defaults to GET.

header string

Additional headers to be sent during request. Values in this option will override other values (such as User-agent:, Host:, and Authentication:).

user_agent string

Value to send with User-Agent: header.

By default the user_agent php.ini setting is used.

content string

Additional data to be sent after the headers. This option is not used for GET or HEAD requests.

proxy string

URI specifying address of proxy server. (e.g. tcp://proxy.example.com:5100).

max_redirects int

The max number of redirects to follow. Value 1 or less means that no redirects are followed.

Defaults to 20.

curl_verify_ssl_host bool

Verify the host.

Defaults to false

Note:

This option is available for both the http and ftp protocol wrappers.

curl_verify_ssl_peer bool

Require verification of SSL certificate used.

Defaults to false

Note:

This option is available for both the http and ftp protocol wrappers.

Examples

Example #1 Fetch a page and send POST data

<?php

$postdata = http_build_query(
array(
'var1' => 'some content',
'var2' => 'doh'
)
);

$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $postdata
)
);

$context = stream_context_create($opts);

$result = file_get_contents('http://example.com/submit.php', false, $context);

?>