Before you ask: I have already checked every similar question that already had an answer, and none of the proposed solutions work. So I'm hoping someone may be able to notice a mistake in my code.
When submitting a cURL post to Google, I am returned with a 411 error, "POST requests require a Content-length header"
//Info required to authenticate
$URL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin";
$POST = http_build_query(array(
'Email' => 'XXXXXXX@gmail.com',
'Passwd' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
'source' => 'primary',
'service' => 'cl'
));
$ch = curl_init( $URL );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $POST);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch); //returns SID=<sid code>nLSID=<lsid code>nAuth=<auth code> or ERROR=<message>
if ( curl_errno($ch) )
die( 'Error contacting server' );
//Successful auth results in http code 200
if ( curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) != 200 )
die( 'Failed to authenticate' );
//Extract auth code - Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=yourAuthToken
$auth_code = substr($response, strpos($response, 'Auth=')+5);
//We're done here
curl_close($ch);
$url = "https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/".urlencode('XXXXXXXXXXXXX@developer.gserviceaccount.com')."/events?sendNotifications=true&pp=1&key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx";
$post_data = http_build_query(array(
"end" => array("dateTime" => "2013-14-11T10:40:00.000-07:00"),
"start" => array("dateTime" => "2013-14-11T10:00:00.000-07:00"),
"summary" => "my_summary",
"description" => "my_description"
));
$headers = array(
'Authorization: GoogleLogin auth='.$auth_code.'',
'Content-Type: application/json'
);
$ch2 = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
$output = curl_exec($ch2);
curl_close($ch2);
echo '<pre>'.print_r($output).'</pre>';
Things I have tried:
-Adding the 'Content-length: '.strlen($post_data)
-Content-type of 'x-www-form-urlencoded'
-using a very simply json string for post_data so that I didn't use http_build_query
-Trying to make it send as a PUT instead of POST
-And a few other things over the course of the last few days that I can't quite recall right now
Intent: To add an event to only MY calendar using only PHP with no authentication steps required by the user. This must be able to run all within a php function, asynchronously (called via AJAX)
NOTE: Not using Wordpress or any other CMS
-Kyle
I think you need to set CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER
. You can tried with pass data as a json string.
$post_data = array(
"end" => array("dateTime" => "2013-14-11T10:40:00.000-07:00"),
"start" => array("dateTime" => "2013-14-11T10:00:00.000-07:00"),
"summary" => "my_summary",
"description" => "my_description"
);
$post_data = json_encode($post_data);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($post_data),)
);
I was receiving the same content error as you and found that I had an erroneous line break in my header, caused by a variable I was including.
I tracked this down using curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
which makes curl_getinfo()
include the request's headers in its output.
Using trim()
on the variable fixed it.
So I just quickly used a curl_getinfo
call to see what was being sent (not quite your recommendation, but it was faster to try this first)... and sure enough... there's no content-length anywhere. I tried it both with the Content-length header being declared by me, and NOT being declared by me. Both options resulted in what you see:
It's also worth noting that is says content_type
= text/html... even though I had it declared as application/json
being used:
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Authorization: GoogleLogin auth='.$auth_code,
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-length:' . strlen($post_data))
);
Here's the output of curl_getinfo
:
Array (
[url] => https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/XXXXXXXXXX%40developer.gserviceaccount.com/events?sendNotifications=true&pp=1&key=XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
[content_type] => text/html; charset=UTF-8
[http_code] => 411
[header_size] => 147
[request_size] => 737
[filetime] => -1
[ssl_verify_result] => 0
[redirect_count] => 0
[total_time] => 0.104391
[namelookup_time] => 0.000687
[connect_time] => 0.025284
[pretransfer_time] => 0.079614
[size_upload] => 159
[size_download] => 934
[speed_download] => 8947
[speed_upload] => 1523
[download_content_length] => 934
[upload_content_length] => 159
[starttransfer_time] => 0.104356
[redirect_time] => 0
[certinfo] => Array
(
)
[primary_ip] => 2607:f8b0:400e:c04::5f
[primary_port] => 443
[local_ip] => 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe69:4a05
[local_port] => 57581
[redirect_url] => )
Updated answer...
In the second curl call you seem to have used the wrong handle for one line...
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
is supposed to be
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_POST, true);
Original answer...
You're not passing a header. Did you try passing the content-length as a header in this format?
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('HeaderName: HeaderValue'));
Your header is currently just the number 1
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('Content-length:'.strlen($post_data)));
I was struggling for a while with a similar problem. In my case it was because one of the values I was setting in my headers ended with a newline character. This meant that the server receiving the post would see the double-newline and prematurely think the headers were finished (which stopped the Content-Length header from being read). Solution was to trim the newline char.