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Shouldn't an X-.... http custom header being used?

Hi Sudheer,
This is a great stuff and thanks for the POST. I tried implementing, and it worked great!!!

Thanks !!

I have a query for you, can we expand this functionality to work together with Zend_OAuth also? If so, pls give a small example. Your suggestion will be a great help for me.

your post is too nice and it helped me a lot
mcse

Can you please explain me the curl commands for PHP ?
The tutorial is great, but would have been better using actual php curl calls, rather than the shell.

Thanks.

Hi Rob, This REST Client code may be useful to you.

<?php
/**
*
* THIS IS AN EXAMPLE AS HOW TO CALL A REST CALL - POST METHOD
*/
$url = 'http://www.helloworld.com/article';
$fields_string = '';
$ch = curl_init();
$headers[] = array('apikey' => 'secret');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("apikey: secret")); // this is for the API key
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,'');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo($result).'';
?>

<?php
/**
* this is to make GET call
**/
$url = 'http://www.helloworld.com/article/1';

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("apikey: secret")); // this is for the API key
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo($result).'';
?>

<?php
/**
* THIS IS TO HAVE A PUT CALL
**/
/**
$xml = 'Hello World! Watch me PUT this here.';
$fh = fopen('php://memory');
fwrite($fh, $xml);
rewind($fh);
**/
$ch = curl_init('http://www.helloworld.com/article');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("apikey: secret")); // this is for the API key
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fh);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, strlen($xml));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

echo curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);
//fclose($fh);
?>

<?php
/**
* THIS IS FOR HTTP - DELETE
**/
$request = 'http://www.helloworld.com/article/1';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("apikey: secret")); // this is for the API key
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
//curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
//curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->requestLogin);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type:application/atom+xml"));
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
echo curl_exec ($ch);

?>

Thanks for the helpful series of REST articles! Sudheer.

Similar to 403 Forbidden, but specifically for use when authentication is possible but has failed or not yet been provided. The response must include a WWW-Authenticate header field containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#4xx_Client_Error

Your series of posts are very useful... first iam appreciating your efforts.

I have used the GET type of curl request, and i want the response as xml foramt... iam using Zend Rest Controller... how can i achieve this.