/**
* Generic curl function to POST to a servicestack.net service. This function
* will work with both HTTP and HTTPS but does not validate an HTTPS connection.
*
* @param string $base_url the base url of the service. It must not end with a / character.
* @param string $service_name the name of the service. This is case sensitive.
* @param json $post_data the data to post. Should already be encoded json using the json_encode function.
* @param string $credentials the username and password to login to the webservice. A string in Format "Username:Password"
* @ return json
*/
function get_data_curl($base_url, $service_name, $post_data, $credentials)
{
// Will create a string like "http://localhost:9200/servicestack/json/syncreply/Hello";
$url = $base_url . '/json/syncreply/' . $service_name;
$contentLength = strlen($post_data);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// Override the default headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json',
'Accept: application/json', "Expect: 100-continue"));
// 0 do not include header in output, 1 include header in output
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// Set username and password
if ($credentials != "")
{
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERPWD, $credentials);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
// if you are not running with SSL or if you don't have valid SSL
$verify_peer = false;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, $verify_peer);
// Disable HOST (the site you are sending request to) SSL Verification,
// if Host can have certificate which is invalid / expired / not signed by authorized CA.
$verify_host = false;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, $verify_host);
// Set the post variables
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
// Set so curl_exec returns the result instead of outputting it.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Get the response and close the channel.
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$json_obj = json_decode($response);
return $json_obj;
}
