Bugs item #2010735, was opened at 2008-07-04 08:34
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Category: http
Group: wrong behaviour
Status: Open
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Grigori Kochanov (kgrigori)
Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: setting a CURLOPT_NOBODY option forces GET request

Initial Comment:
Hi,
when my Fedora Core auto-upgraded curl to 7.18.2 a problem appeared.

In my PHP scripts I use CURL for POST requests.

This code sends a basic POST request:
<?php
$url= "http://example.com/test.php";
$ch = curl_init($url);

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'test=test&submint=submit');
//curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_NOBODY,0);

//echo $Curl->exec();
echo curl_exec($ch);
?>

If I uncomment CURLOPT_NOBODY option with any value, it will send GET request instead of POST.

Thanks, Grigori

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>Comment By: Dan Fandrich (dfandrich)
Date: 2008-07-04 11:01

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This is by design, to wit (from the changelog):

  Setting CURLOPT_NOBODY to FALSE will now switch the HTTP request method
to
  GET simply because previously when you set CURLOPT_NOBODY to TRUE first
and
  then FALSE you'd end up in a broken state where a HTTP request would do
a
  HEAD by still act a lot like for a GET and hang waiting for the content
etc.

And (from the man page):

  If you issue a POST request and then want to make a
  HEAD or GET using the same re-used handle, you must
  explicitly set the new request type using CUR
  LOPT_NOBODY or CURLOPT_HTTPGET or similar.

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