在PHP中使用curl GET遇到麻烦

Question

I'm trying to get a JSON response from a curl GET request, but have not been able to get it to work. I've tried several examples and am just not getting anything back. This is what I'm trying:

$Url = "http://app.whistle.com/api/dogs/132376/dailies/16955&X-Whistle-AuthToken=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

$ch = curl_init($Url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;

Does anyone know why this isn't working?

Answer 1

The url returns a HTTP 401 status (not authorised). This means that the authentication failed. You should check your authentication parameters. Check if you need to set username and password, or that your AuthToken is valid.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");

Answer 2

You seem to add X-Whistle-AuthToken to the URL. First of all, that would be done, starting with ? since it's the first parameter, not with & .

Secondly since this X-Whistle-AuthToken starts with an X- I assume that it is a HTTP header that needs to be send as a HTTP header using CURL, not as a HTTP GET parameter. But you have to check the corresponding documentation to make sure how the API expects your answer.

Something like this will probably work as it should:

$Url = "http://app.whistle.com/api/dogs/132376/dailies/16955";

$ch = curl_init($Url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("X-Whistle-AuthToken: 214cca48930110a634cfc34fe9b4ee17"));

$result = curl_exec($ch);
if ($result === false){ die(curl_error($ch)); }

$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
var_dump($result);

Last but not least:

Change your AuthToken. You just leaked a private token that should probably stay private.