cURL POST with SSL and AUTH to Laravel PHP API

Question

I have been writing a RESTful API for my Laravel application. I can submit data using cURL in Terminal with the following line;

curl -i --user admin@admin.com:qwertyuiop -d "data=somedata" https://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk/app/api/v1/clients

but when i try and do the same in cURL using PHP it gives me a 403 forbidden error.

$url = "https://www.xxxxxxxxxx.co.uk/app/api/v1/clients";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "admin@admin.com:qwertyuiop");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "data=mydata");
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($output);

Any ideas what i'm missing from my PHP cURL script? Thanks

For security i dont really wish to provide my URL. It contains confidential data. — adam Kearsley, Sep 27 '13 at 09:40
Forbidden usually is a response from webserver. Your server logs are saying anything about this? — Antonio Carlos Ribeiro, Sep 27 '13 at 12:38
Check out what the [user in this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/316099/cant-connect-to-https-site-using-curl-returns-0-length-content-instead-what-c) does differently, including getting returned headers (post 'em here!) — fideloper, Sep 27 '13 at 14:52
Hmm its strange, i was testing this code out on the same Laravel project as the API was called from and it didnt like it. I run it locally and it work! — adam Kearsley, Sep 27 '13 at 15:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 28 '19 at 06:45

It's been almost 6 years since this question asked. But I'm sure this answer will solve your and probably another problem with this. This code also solved my problem.

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://example.com",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30000,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
        // Set Here Your Requested Headers
        'Content-Type: application/json',
    ),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
    dd($response);    //this line is my custom code
}

As explained in this amazing website, where I found this code about Laravel POST using cURL

cURL POST with SSL and AUTH to Laravel PHP API

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