I've got a piece of code (let's name it Code A) working in a framework and I want to make it work in another framework. The working piece of code makes a successful POST request using CURL like this (request with CURLOPT_VERBOSE on):
* Connected to android.clients.google.com (216.58.209.238) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: /Applications/MAMP/Library/OpenSSL/cert.pem
CApath: none
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* Server certificate:
* subject: C=US; ST=California; L=Mountain View; O=Google Inc; CN=*.google.com
* start date: Jan 18 19:17:59 2017 GMT
* expire date: Apr 12 18:51:00 2017 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "android.clients.google.com" matched cert's "android.clients.google.com"
* issuer: C=US; O=Google Inc; CN=Google Internet Authority G2
* SSL certificate verify ok.
> POST /auth HTTP/1.1
Host: android.clients.google.com
Accept: */*
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 97
The http framework here (yii2/httpclient, to be specific) has too many dependencies to bring it to the other project so I'm trying to recreate it on low level like this (let's name it Code B):
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'post-data-here');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://android.clients.google.com/auth');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"]); // just because I'm desperate
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
I'm expecting that to have the same result, but this is what I get:
* Connected to android.clients.google.com (216.58.209.238) port 443 (#0)
* TLS 1.2 connection using TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
* Server certificate: *.google.com
* Server certificate: Google Internet Authority G2
* Server certificate: GeoTrust Global CA
> POST /auth HTTP/1.1
Host: android.clients.google.com
Accept: */*
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 97
* upload completely sent off: 97 out of 97 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
< Pragma: no-cache
< Expires: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
< Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:07:12 GMT
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< Server: GSE
< Alt-Svc: clear
< Accept-Ranges: none
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>HTTP Version Not Supported</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
<H1>HTTP Version Not Supported</H1>
<H2>Error 505</H2>
</BODY>
</HTML>
And instead of a valid response I get "Error 505: HTTP Version Not Supported". The only difference I see is that the working code tries to "ALPN, offering http/1.1" while the latter code doesn't do that. And the certificate part after that, but it's never ever mentioned in code A so I'm not sure what does it do to provide it.
Both versions of code run on the same server, same version of PHP (5.6) and CURL (7.51.0). The difference in verbose log starts BEFORE any data being sent, so I guess it's not about any data or headers being set incorrectly.
What I tried so far (with little or no effect):
- curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_ENABLE_ALPN, whatever) - does not work because CURLOPT_SSL_ENABLE_ALPN is not defined at all (although it must be in this version of CURL, not sure what's wrong)
- curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, whatever)
- curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, whatever)
- curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, whatever)
- some other desperate silly stuff I'm even ashamed to show here
I've tried to learn the working code as deep as I could but it seems that it doesn't do anything over the simple HTTP POST. I tracked every curl_setopt it makes and it seems there are only these curl_setopt I used in my code, nothing extra. Still, it works and my code doesn't.
I've tried making the same using the command line:
$ curl https://android.clients.google.com/auth -v --http1.1 -X POST --no-alpn --no-npn --data "copypasted-post-data-from-code-B-and-yes-its-urlencoded"
Got the correct result:
* Trying 216.58.209.238...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to android.clients.google.com (216.58.209.238) port 443 (#0)
* Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: /Applications/MAMP/Library/OpenSSL/cert.pem
CApath: none
...
> POST /auth HTTP/1.1
> Host: android.clients.google.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.51.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 97
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
* upload completely sent off: 97 out of 97 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
< Pragma: no-cache
< Expires: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
< Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:22:27 GMT
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< Server: GSE
< Alt-Svc: clear
< Accept-Ranges: none
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
SID=BAD_COOKIE
LSID=BAD_COOKIE
Auth=here-s-the-data-i-need
