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How to switch from POST to GET in PHP CURL

Asked 2009-08-04T01:50:10.983
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I have tried switching from a previous Post request to a Get request. Which assumes its a Get but eventually does a post.

I tried the following in PHP :

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, null);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, FALSE);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, TRUE);

What am I missing?

Additional information: I already have a connection that's setup to do a POST request. That completes successfully but later on when I try to reuse the connection and switch back to GET using the setopts above it still ends up doing a POST internally with incomplete POST headers. The problem is it believes its doing a GET but ends up putting a POST header without the content-length parameter and the connection fails witha 411 ERROR.

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Solved: The problem lies here:

I set POST via both _CUSTOMREQUEST and _POST and the _CUSTOMREQUEST persisted as POST while _POST switched to _HTTPGET. The Server assumed the header from _CUSTOMREQUEST to be the right one and came back with a 411.

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
answered 2009-08-04T18:56:52.597

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