I am using PHP curl
functions to post data to the web server from my local machine. My code is as follows:
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$result = curl_exec($c);
if (curl_exec($c) === false) {
echo "ok";
} else {
echo "error";
}
curl_close($c);
Unfortunately I am not able to catch any errors like 404, 500 or network failure. So how will I get to know that data was not posted to or retrieved from the remote?
You can use the curl_error()
function to detect if there was some error. For example:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $your_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true); // Required for HTTP error codes to be reported via our call to curl_error($ch)
//...
curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
$error_msg = curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
if (isset($error_msg)) {
// TODO - Handle cURL error accordingly
}
See the description of libcurl error codes here