13.4.1. ProblemYou want to retrieve a URL that requires specific headers to be sent with the request for the page. 13.4.2. SolutionSet the header stream context option when using the http stream as in Example 13-20. The header value must be a single string. Separate multiple headers with a carriage return and newline (\r\n inside a double-quoted string). Sending a header with the http stream
With cURL, set the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option to an array of headers to send, as shown in Example 13-22. Sending a header with cURL
With HTTP_Request, use the addHeader( ) method, as shown in Example 13-35. Sending a header with HTTP_Request
13.4.3. DiscussioncURL has special options for setting the Referer and User-Agent request headers'CURLOPT_REFERER and CURLOPT_USERAGENT. Example 13-23 uses each of these options. Setting Referer and User-Agent with cURL
13.4.4. See AlsoDocumentation on on the http stream wrapper at http://www.php.net/wrappers.http, on curl_setopt( ) at http://www.php.net/curl-setopt, and on the PEAR HTTP_Request class at http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request. The mailing-list message at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg-old/1996MayAug/0734.html explains the ambitious and revolutionary goals behind spelling "Referer" with one "r." |