PHP cURL custom headers

I'm wondering if/how you can add custom headers to a cURL HTTP request in PHP. I'm trying to emulate how iTunes grabs artwork and it uses these non-standard headers:

X-Apple-Tz: 0
X-Apple-Store-Front: 143444,12

How could I add these headers to a request?

4 Answers

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'X-Apple-Tz: 0', 'X-Apple-Store-Front: 143444,12'
));

Use the following Syntax

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$vars); //Post Fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$headers = [ 'X-Apple-Tz: 0', 'X-Apple-Store-Front: 143444,12', 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate', 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5', 'Cache-Control: no-cache', 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8', 'Host: 'Referer: //Your referrer address 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0', 'X-MicrosoftAjax: Delta=true'
];
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print $server_output ;

$subscription_key =''; $host = ''; $request_headers = array( "X-Mashape-Key:" . $subscription_key, "X-Mashape-Host:" . $host ); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $request_headers); $season_data = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) { print "Error: " . curl_error($ch); exit(); } // Show me the result curl_close($ch); $json= json_decode($season_data, true);

Here is one basic function:

/** * * @param string $url * @param string|array $post_fields * @param array $headers * @return type */
function cUrlGetData($url, $post_fields = null, $headers = null) { $ch = curl_init(); $timeout = 5; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); if (!empty($post_fields)) { curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields); } if (!empty($headers)) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); $data = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) { echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch); } curl_close($ch); return $data;
}

Usage example:

$url = "";
$post_fields = 'postvars=val1&postvars2=val2';
$headers = ['Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'];
$dat = cUrlGetData($url, $post_fields, $headers);