Sockets help

[jmace]

Hey everyone!

I am trying to post a feed file to ebay from our site via a PHP script, but I am new to this stuff and having some trouble. On ebay's website they have an example of the request you need to send to post a feed file:

POST /path/to/upload/script HTTP/1.0
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: My Client App v1.0
Host:
https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...ExchangeUpload
Content-type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=THIS_STRING_SEPARATES
Content-Length: 256
--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="token"
12345678987654321
--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file";
filename="listings.csv"
Content-Type: text/csv
... contents of listings.csv ...
--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES

I tried to implement it using this code:

<?php

// GET THE FEED FILE
$options = array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HEADER         => false, 
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, 
    CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "", 
    CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "website", 
    CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,
    CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, 
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10, 
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
);

$ch = curl_init('https://www.mysite.com/pull_feed.php');
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$contents = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );


//----------------------------------------------------//


//OPEN THE CONNECTION
$conn = fsockopen('https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?FileExchangeProgrammaticDownload', 80);

// START THE REQUEST
fputs($conn, "POST ".$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']." HTTP/1.0");
fputs($conn, "Connection: Keep-Alive");
fputs($conn, "User-Agent: My Client App v1.0");
fputs($conn, "Host:");
fputs($conn, "https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?FileExchangeUpload");
fputs($conn, "Content-type: multipart/form-data;");
fputs($conn, "boundary=THIS_STRING_SEPARATES");
fputs($conn, "Content-Length: ".strlen($contents));
fputs($conn, "--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES");
fputs($conn, "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"token\"");
fputs($conn, "MY_KEY_IS_HERE_000000000000000000000000");
fputs($conn, "--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES");
fputs($conn, "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\";");
fputs($conn, "filename=\"listings.csv\"");
fputs($conn, "Content-Type: text/csv");

// SEND THE FILE
fputs($conn, $contents);

// END THE REQUEST
fputs($conn, "--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES");

// GET THE RESULT
while(!feof($conn)) {
    echo fgets($conn, 128);
}

// CLOSE CONNECTION
fclose($conn);

?>

But I am getting this error:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...ticDownload:80 (Unable to find the socket transport "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in C:\home\imafs\public_html\funad\ebay\send_feed.php on line 27

Followed by more errors resulting from that one.

What can I do to solve this? Or is there another way to go about this?

[djr33]

PHP is configured incorrectly on your server-- or at least it's not configured in the way that you need it.
Reinstall PHP if you can.

Create a page with the following line (only) to check your configuration:
<?php php_info(); ?>

If you are on a hosting account (rather than your own server) ask your host about this-- they might not allow it (or even block it), or they may be able to install it for you.

[traq]

fsockopen doens't use https. try ssl:// instead.

supported sockets

[jmace]

traq was right. That was one of the problems-- possibly the biggest. It's working better now with this code (at least it does something):

<?php

// GET THE FEED FILE
$options = array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
    CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
    CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
    CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "website", // who am i
    CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
    CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
);

$ch = curl_init('https://www.mysite.com/pull_feed.php');
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$contents = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );


//----------------------------------------------------//


//OPEN THE CONNECTION
$conn = fsockopen('ssl://bulksell.ebay.com', 443);

// START THE REQUEST
fputs($conn, "POST ".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']." HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($conn, "Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n");
fputs($conn, "User-Agent: My Client App v1.0\r\n");
fputs($conn, "Host:\r\n");
fputs($conn, "https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?FileExchangeUpload\r\n");
fputs($conn, "Content-type: multipart/form-data;\r\n");
fputs($conn, "boundary=THIS_STRING_SEPARATES\r\n");
fputs($conn, "Content-Length: ".strlen($contents)."\r\n");
fputs($conn, "--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES\r\n");
fputs($conn, "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"token\"\r\n");
fputs($conn, "MY_SECRET_TOKEN\r\n");
fputs($conn, "--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES\r\n");
fputs($conn, "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\";\r\n");
fputs($conn, "filename=\"listings.csv\"\r\n");
fputs($conn, "Content-Type: text/csv\r\n\r\n");

// SEND THE FILE
fputs($conn, $contents."\r\n");

// END THE REQUEST
fputs($conn, "--THIS_STRING_SEPARATES\r\n");

// GET THE RESULT
while(!feof($conn)) {
    echo fgets($conn, 128);
}

// CLOSE CONNECTION
fclose($conn);

?>

But it is returning:

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Location: http://pages.ebay.com/messages/page_....12.13.161.MST
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:12:13 GMT
Connection: close

Possibly because I have to connect to ssl://bulksell.ebay.com instead of https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...mmaticDownload

You'll notice if you click the link that it's there and waiting for a file, but I'm not sending it there apparently. So now what should I do?

[traq]

when I click your link I get a 404 page. are you sure this is the correct (and current) url to connect to?

[jmace]

Did you click this link?
https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...mmaticDownload
Because this definitely is working for me. This is the page I am suppose to go to, from what I understand after reading this:
http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/p...structions.pdf
(click "using advanced functions", then go to "using programmatic instructions")

[traq]

Try sending the entire message at once, instead of using fputs() line-by-line.

(Also, ssl://www.example.com/page and https://www.example.com/page are not different pages; just different protocols.)

[jmace]

Thank you very much for your help, traq.

I understand that ssl:// and https:// are the same page, but the problem is that I cannot connect to
https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...mmaticDownload
directly. I have to connect to page
bulksell.ebay.com or I get an error:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. in C:\home\public_html\send_feed.php on line 28

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?FileExchangeProgrammaticDownload:443 (Unknown error) in C:\home\public_html\send_feed.php on line 28

Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\home\public_html\send_feed.php on line 31

Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\home\public_html\send_feed.php on line 32

Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\home\public_html\send_feed.php on line 33

. . . .

But bulksell.ebay.com gives me a page not found from the server. . . .

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Location: http://pages.ebay.com/messages/page_....07.10.028.MST
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:07:10 GMT
Connection: close

I've been told that you have to do the fsockopen() to the domain, instead of the page-- which makes sense seeing as how trying to connect to the page gives me an error. But the domain isn't working either. I have no idea what to do. Any more help would be greatly appreciated.

[jmace]

Whoops! I figured out the problem. It was a really stupid mistake on my part. I did in fact have to connect to the domain, not the path. But the

fputs($conn, "POST /ws/eBayISAPI.dll?FileExchangeProgrammaticDownload\r\n HTTP/1.1\r\n"); 

Code was wrong. Fixed now. But now I am getting

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Length:54
Connection: close

<html><body><b>Http/1.1 Bad Request</b></body> </html>

As a response. . . . I'll have to see what's causing that, now.

Two steps forward, one step back.

[traq]

I don't *think* there's supposed to be a newline between the path and the HTTP declaration.

Are you still using fputs line-by-line? Try assembling the entire message into a single fputs() call. If ebay is only getting part of your message, they likely just close the connection (that's your "bad request" error) instead of waiting for the whole thing.