Home » HTTP » HTTP_Client » Bug #9428

[2006-11-23 12:20 UTC] jestershoot at inbox dot ru

Description:
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I have a problem with https call. when i try to call

https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html

for example, browser hangs. What am I doing wrong?

If HTTP_Client works with https at all?

Test script:
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<?php

require_once 'HTTP/Client.php';

$req =& new HTTP_Client();

if (!PEAR::isError($req->get('https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html'))) {

$a = $req->currentResponse();
$f = $a['body'];
}
echo $f;
?>

Expected result:
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loaded page

Actual result:
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browser hangs

[2007-01-07 16:36 UTC] bugs dot pear dot php dot net at daskalou dot com

I'm having this same problem.

I tried doing it in CLI mode and I get this:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I managed to track down the problem to the Net_Socket PEAR class.

Net_Socket opens a socket connection to send the HTTPS request using the PHP function fsockopen() in its connect() method. The Segmentation fault occurs when Net_Socket attempts to close the socket using the PHP function fclose().

I have experienced the same problem when I tried using the curl_* functions instead of this HTTP_Client class to try to retrieve a response. Upon the call to the PHP function curl_close() I get the same Segmentation fault.

Note that the problem only occurs when using the HTTPS protocol but not with the HTTP protocol.

Others are having this same problem with HTTPS/SSL access but it looks like the PHP developers are saying it's not a bug with PHP but rather with MySQL:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39570
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38393

My current installation details are:

PHP 5.2
MySQL 5.0.27-0
Apache 1.3.37
Hosted on a CentOS 3.8 installation (which includes cPanel)

This bug was not present when I had PHP 4.4.3 and MySQL 5.0.25 installed.

I'll try and post this as part of the PHP bugs when I get a chance...

[2007-01-07 16:45 UTC] bugs dot pear dot php dot net at daskalou dot com

Submitted this as a new PHP bug here:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40049

[2007-01-07 19:12 UTC] bugs dot pear dot php dot net at daskalou dot com

Ok, so I've been investigating this bug all damn night, and have concluded that it is most likely a MySQL bug (see http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19810).

As a temporary solution, if you want to access sites using the HTTPS protocol you can use the "curl" system command by using the backticks operator in PHP, for example:

<?php

$url = "https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html";
$username = "blah";
$password = "bleh";

// Using the POST method
$command = "curl \"$url\" --data-binary \"".
"user=".urlencode($username).
"&".
"password=".urlencode($password).
"\"";

$f = `$command`;

// Using the GET method
$command = "curl \"$url?".
"user=".urlencode($username).
"&".
"password=".urlencode($password).
"\"";

$f = `$command`;
?>

Oh yeah, I'm assuming you're using Linux ;)

There's an abundance of other useful parameters you can pass into the curl system command, just do a "man curl" at the command prompt to see what's on offer (the --max-redirs option, for example, sets the maximum number of redirections curl is allowed to follow).

Also the "wget" command will work with this too using something like "wget -O - \"$url\" 2>/dev/null" or even the "lynx" command (eg. "lynx --source \"$url\"). View the man pages on those commands to see how to pass GET or POST data to the URLs.

Hope that helps.