Why POST? The "default" Google search page, in the U.S. at least, does a GET.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wakerley" <gwak_at_o2.co.uk>
To: <curl-and-php_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:21 AM
Subject: RE: POST requests require a Content-length header error

> Hi
>
> Operating system XP Pro
> Curl Version 7.11.0
> Error returned from google
>
> Length Required
> POST requests require a Content-length header.
>
> Code used
> $var = 'php' ;
> $trimmed = trim($var); //trim whitespace from the stored variable
> $ch = curl_init();
> $user_agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET
> CLR 1.1.4322)";
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.google.com/search?q="
> . $trimmed . "\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up
> " . $trimmed . " on Google\">Click here");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); // times out after 4s
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // set POST method
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,0);
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
>
> $result = curl_exec ($ch);
> curl_close ($ch);
> echo $result;
>
>
> Regards
>
> Gary Wakerley
> gwak_at_o2.co.uk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: curl-and-php-admin_at_lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:curl-and-php-admin_at_lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Daniel
> Stenberg
> Sent: 02 February 2004 11:44
> To: curl and php list
> Subject: Re: POST requests require a Content-length header error
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Gary Wakerley wrote:
>
> > Please could someone give some help. I get the POST requests require a
> > Content-length header error when I try to access google using php and
> curl.
> > Has any one had this problem and did you find an answer?
>
> Please try to be a lot more specific when reporting errors.
>
> * curl version?
> * operating system?
> * what *exactly* does the site report? (preferably including all
> headers)
> * what headers does curl's request include?
> * how can we repeat the problem?
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- http://curl.haxx.se/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
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