Download file using Chrome in headless mode with Selenium PHP

Question

I've followed this question and searched around the internet but there seems to be solutions only for Java, Python and JavaScript.

I'm trying to download a file using Chrome as my WebDriver in Selenium and having it executed with the headless option enabled.

After checking the solution for JavaScript in this post, I thought it would be very straight forward with PHP but my Selenium server always returns a null response.

I've tried different approaches including using curl to enable the download directly:

$params = [
    'cmd' => 'Page.setDownloadBehavior',
    'params' => [
        'behavior' => 'allow',
        'downloadPath' => 'path/to/documents/'
    ]
];
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt(
    $curl,
    CURLOPT_URL,
    'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub/session/'.$driver->getSessionID().'/chromium/send_command'
);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));

$raw_results = trim(curl_exec($curl));

$this->driver->get('https://example.com/document.pdf');

The response I receive is:

{"sessionId":"7a724b52a9d52d3c89481345351fea117","status":0,"value":null}

Has anyone managed to download a file in headless mode using Chrome?

Download file using Chrome in headless mode with Selenium PHP

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