cURL uploading image. It's either gremlins or UFO's

lorenw · March 21, 2014, 12:56am

Hi all and welcome to my craziness.
I am trying to upload a logo to Aweber
If I use this path, C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample Pictures/whatever.jpg, it works everytime.
If I use this path, C:\web\michael\Dropbox\sites\Sample Pictures/whatever.jpg, it works every time.
This is the crazy part, if I use this path, it fails every time. C:\Users\WiFi Gator\Pictures\2013-10-31/whatever.jpg fails everytime.
I think the problem is that the address bar actually displays “My Pictures”, not “Pictures”.
This is what I get for a successful upload, using,


curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
$verbose = fopen('php://temp', 'rw+');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_STDERR, $verbose);

results of a successful upload

That was good, logo was updated
BUT.

Everytime I use C:\Users\WiFi Gator\Pictures\2013-10-31/whatever.jpg it fails everytime.

Certainly I am uploading an image. but it fails, it has a name and filesize


    [logo_upload] => Array
        (
            [name] => 042.JPG
            [type] => image/jpeg
            [tmp_name] => C:\\Windows\\php5FE3.tmp
            [error] => 0
            [size] => 1344525
        )
// this is going into cURL post fields
Array
(
    [sess_token] => b2d545f99cbe1d0a670d68c719385f690
    [logo_upload] => @C:\\Windows\\php5FE3.tmp
)

BTW all tokens have been modified so there is no security risk.

I don’t get what is happening but here is what I am doing,


	$postf = array('sess_token' => $outc[1][0],'logo_upload'=>'@'.$_FILES['logo_upload']['tmp_name']);

	$url = 'https://www.aweber.com/users/settings/logo';
	$results = do_curl($url, $postf, $file, $follow);

I am ready to put on a tin foil hat.
Thank you for looking and even if it is speculation, look forward to replies.

lorenw · March 21, 2014, 1:02am

I might add that I have an image upload script that works fine with the path, C:\Users\WiFi Gator\Pictures\2013-10-31/whatever.jpg

vectorialpx · March 21, 2014, 8:02am

Ok, sounds strange.

Q 1. Is the real path from your PC
C:\Users\WiFi Gator\Pictures\2013-10-31/whatever.jpg
or
C:\Users\WiFi Gator\My Pictures\2013-10-31/whatever.jpg

Q2. For upload, do you use the file from [logo_upload][tmp_name] (the one that is on the disk)

Looks like the tmp file is created but you get “Operation timed out”
Q3. Did you check your server logs?

lorenw · March 21, 2014, 5:28pm

I see the problem, This gets crazier.
same image from same location sometimes works sometimes fails.

in every case this is what is passed into $curl,


    [logo_upload] => Array
        (
            [name] => Lighthouse.jpg
            [type] => image/jpeg
            [tmp_name] => C:\\Windows\\php69FF.tmp
            [error] => 0
            [size] => 561276
        )
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS Array
(
    [sess_token] => 08db16a9cb878ccb439ed4b4ec6b2d71222f2f37
    [logo_upload] => @C:\\Windows\\php69FF.tmp
)

Then in curl_getinfo array, I get
[content_type] =>
or if it is successful, [content_type] => text/plain as you can see in the failed and successful attempts above, I was too tired last night to catch that.

I tried adding this
$header = “Content-type: text/plain”;

Still same problem.

I did more reading and it appears that it is up to the server, in my case, localhost to set the content type.

If the curl_getinfo call does not return it (CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE), the server did not send it in its HTTP headers.

I uploaded the script to a production server and it doesn’t seem to have the problem.

All this time I thought it was cURL, now I am wondering why localhost is so intermittent / picky.

Thank you all and if there is something you would like to add, please do so.

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