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Re: retrieving complete response using curl_exec()

From: Kirk Hedden <khedden_at_treefrogcreations.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:36:14 -0500

Does it not work for any web site, or just the one?

What version of PHP/CURL are you using?

Kirk

At 06:06 PM 2/2/2005, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Daniel Stenberg said:
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Michael wrote:
> >
> > > What do I need to do to make sure that curl_exec() returns the
> > > entire response and not just a fragment? What am I missing?
> >
> > It should return the entire response. Anything else is a bug in
> > either end.
>
>Well, I'm doing the standard thing of setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER and
>assigning the output of curl_exec to a variable. That's where I'm
>getting the problem -- that variable only has part of the response page.
>
>If I turn CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER off and just output to the browser, I
>get the whole page, BUT if I keep that setting off and use ob_start,
>ob_get_contents, and ob_end_clean to get the contents of the output
>buffer, I get the same fragment as I do in the first case.
>
>Finally, if I use curl on the command line, I get the whole thing. So it
>seems like either there's something I'm not doing right in my program,
>or something isn't set up right. Is there some transfer limit setting
>somewhere that might be set wrong? The fragments are all about 8270
>bytes long, but not always exactly the same.
>
>It also doesn't matter if I set CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0 or
>CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1. Since the first one forces the server not to send
>"Transfer-encoding: chunked", I thought that might help, but it doesn't.
>
>What else should I look at? When you say it's a bug on either end, do
>you have any suggestions as to how I could figure out where the bug is?
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>Mike
Received on 2005-02-03