On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ken Kixmoeller/fh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, the deal is this: I was confused because curl_exec was > returning TRUE instead of a resource. According to the documentation, > when CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is true, it is supposed to return a > resource. And it is.
PHP is loosely typed. If it's not zero, it's TRUE, as well as perhaps being a string or an integer or something else. > Weird thing #2 was that the server also wasn't > returning any data error message. I guess it was telling me that it > did, in fact pass a "virtual page" to the server, even though the > page was devoid of actual information. Well, sometimes silence is a message, too. Ask any married man :) > So, now the server and I are communicating, but the server is sending > me back a very cryptic error message. Insufficient data. tell us more and perhaps we can shed light where there is darkness. > (As if there is any other kind! > Why do we do this to ourselves? A programmer's goal is to make it work. Sadly, they spend little time considering what to do when the program fails. > It just takes a few more electrons to > have an error message that actually *tells* a fellow traveler > something useful.) A universal problem. > So, I am off to the server's site to see if there is anything more > about the error than is in the Official Documentation, which ever-so- > helpfully merely repeats the error message grouped among other > "server messages." Why even bother writing such Official > Documentation, and treat as if it were delivered by a chorus of > angels?? </rant> Without more specifics, it's hard to help out, but I could suggest you try using curl, the command-line tool, directly from the command window, to see if that provides more enlightenment, or perhaps a browser to the URL, if that's applicable. Wrapping it all in a couple more layers of indirection, through a web server, through the PHP interpreter, just makes it harder to debug. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
