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Bug #66562 curl_exec returns differently than curl_multi_getcontent
Submitted: 2014-01-23 19:59 UTC Modified: -
Votes:2
Avg. Score:3.5 ± 0.5
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: nefiga at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: cURL related
PHP Version: 5.4.24 OS: centos 6.4
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2014-01-23 19:59 UTC] nefiga at hotmail dot com
Description:
------------
If I curl a webpage that returns standard headers and no content, using CULOPT_RETURNTRANSFER = true to get the content returned on curl_exec, I get an empty string in $return_value from the call

$return_value = curl_exec($url);

However, if I do the same using curl_multi functions, I get a "null" value instead of the expected empty string.

$return_value = curl_multi_getcontent($ch);

Tested using the exact same curl options block, against two requests (one of which returned some text, and the other which was an empty page). The multi_curl against the empty page gives a NULL value for $return_value, which is incorrect, and should be an empty string.

Test script:
---------------
<?php
$url = 'http://bargainlight.com/empty.php';
$url2 = 'http://bargainlight.com/nonempty.php';

$curl_options =  array(
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 3,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
);

$ch_1 = curl_init();
$ch_2 = curl_init();
$ch_3 = curl_init();
$ch_4 = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch_1, $curl_options);
curl_setopt($ch_1, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt_array($ch_2, $curl_options);
curl_setopt($ch_2, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt_array($ch_3, $curl_options);
curl_setopt($ch_3, CURLOPT_URL, $url2);
curl_setopt_array($ch_4, $curl_options);
curl_setopt($ch_4, CURLOPT_URL, $url2);

$multi_handle = curl_multi_init();
curl_multi_add_handle($multi_handle, $ch_1);
curl_multi_add_handle($multi_handle, $ch_3);

$r2 = curl_exec($ch_2);
$r4 = curl_exec($ch_4);

do {
    curl_multi_exec($multi_handle, $running);
    curl_multi_select($multi_handle);
} while ($running > 0);

$r1 = curl_multi_getcontent($ch_1);
$r3 = curl_multi_getcontent($ch_3);

var_dump($r1);
var_dump($r2);
var_dump($r3);
var_dump($r4);


Expected result:
----------------
r1 should be not null


Patches

multi_get_content-returns-null (last revision 2014-01-24 14:32 UTC by freeklijten at gmail dot com)

Pull Requests

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 [2014-01-27 19:02 UTC] freeklijten at gmail dot com
This is an inconsistency bug and the patch I added fixes the problem. However I understood that it is probably a patch that should be applied to a new version since people may be expecting this behaviour from curl_multi_getcontent.
 [2014-04-14 01:14 UTC] stas@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5558d0db9b88a1975b40d4beb5db863c7d87e3c0
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 [2014-04-14 01:14 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed
 [2014-04-14 01:16 UTC] stas@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=54a6c1de7d621f97076eefeb82f0d50ce47f1223
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 [2014-04-15 12:04 UTC] ab@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5558d0db9b88a1975b40d4beb5db863c7d87e3c0
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 [2014-04-15 13:05 UTC] ab@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5558d0db9b88a1975b40d4beb5db863c7d87e3c0
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 [2014-04-15 13:05 UTC] ab@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=54a6c1de7d621f97076eefeb82f0d50ce47f1223
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 [2014-05-01 14:59 UTC] tyrael@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5558d0db9b88a1975b40d4beb5db863c7d87e3c0
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 [2014-10-07 23:15 UTC] stas@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src-security.git;a=commit;h=5558d0db9b88a1975b40d4beb5db863c7d87e3c0
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 [2014-10-07 23:26 UTC] stas@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src-security.git;a=commit;h=5558d0db9b88a1975b40d4beb5db863c7d87e3c0
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 [2016-07-20 11:40 UTC] davey@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=54a6c1de7d621f97076eefeb82f0d50ce47f1223
Log: Fix #66562: Consistency bug where curl_multi_getcontent behaves different from curl_exec
 
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