How to include Authorization header in cURL POST HTTP Request in PHP?

Question

I'm trying to access mails of a user through Gmails OAuth 2.0, and I'm figuring this out through Google's OAuth 2.0 Playground

Here, they've specified I need to send this as a HTTP REQUEST:

POST /mail/feed/atom/ HTTP/1.1
Host: mail.google.com
Content-length: 0
Content-type: application/json
Authorization: OAuth SomeHugeOAuthaccess_tokenThatIReceivedAsAString

I've tried writing a code to send this REQUEST like this:

$crl = curl_init();
$header[] = 'Content-length: 0 
Content-type: application/json';

curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_POST,       true);
curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, urlencode($accesstoken));

$rest = curl_exec($crl);

print_r($rest);

Not working, please help. :)

UPDATE: I took Jason McCreary's advice and now my code looks like this:

$crl = curl_init();

$headr = array();
$headr[] = 'Content-length: 0';
$headr[] = 'Content-type: application/json';
$headr[] = 'Authorization: OAuth '.$accesstoken;

curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$headr);
curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_POST,true);
$rest = curl_exec($crl);

curl_close($crl);

print_r($rest);

But I'm not getting any output out of this. I think cURL is silently failing somewhere. Please do help. :)

UPDATE 2: NomikOS's trick did it for me. :) :) :) Thank you!!

Shameless self promotion. You may be interested in the oAuth lib I've written: https://github.com/PeeHaa/PHPoAuthLib — PeeHaa, Sep 08 '12 at 13:47
@peehaa +1..... good thing must be promoted, not matter how. — Igor Parra, Sep 08 '12 at 14:04
you have an error in the variable name of the header, headr insted of header ! — denn0n, May 26 '23 at 00:21

score 52 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '12 at 13:46

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You have most of the code…

CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER for curl_setopt() takes an array with each header as an element. You have one element with multiple headers.

You also need to add the Authorization header to your $header array.

$header = array();
$header[] = 'Content-length: 0';
$header[] = 'Content-type: application/json';
$header[] = 'Authorization: OAuth SomeHugeOAuthaccess_tokenThatIReceivedAsAString';

answered Sep 08 '12 at 13:46

Jason McCreary

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Hey, Um. Still not getting any output. :( – Sep 08 '12 at 13:59
You could have more than 1 problem. Tough to tell. Any errors? You've confirmed the auth token? etc. – Jason McCreary Sep 08 '12 at 14:01
Yeah I'm echoing auth_token and It seems to give me a pretty long and good string. - Do check my updated code and check If anything needs be done. Thank you sooo much for your patience. :) – Sep 08 '12 at 14:03

Igor Parra · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-17T16:54:11.970

@jason-mccreary is totally right. Besides I recommend you this code to get more info in case of malfunction:

$rest = curl_exec($crl);

if ($rest === false)
{
    // throw new Exception('Curl error: ' . curl_error($crl));
    print_r('Curl error: ' . curl_error($crl));
}

curl_close($crl);
print_r($rest);

EDIT 1

To debug you can set CURLOPT_HEADER to true to check HTTP response with firebug::net or similar.

curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);

EDIT 2

About Curl error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK try adding this headers (just to debug, in a production enviroment you should keep these options in true):

curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Hey, thanks for adding this. Now I get an error saying: Curl error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed — , Sep 08 '12 at 14:11

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 22 '19 at 07:29

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use "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" instead of "application/json"

answered Feb 22 '19 at 07:29

Anudeep Sharma

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How to include Authorization header in cURL POST HTTP Request in PHP?

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