cURL response not readable

Question

I have a problem with my cURL response, when I try to invoke the method of WSDL, I receive this weird text from my browser,

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How can I solve this?

Here's my header

$headers = array(
                "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate",
                "Content-Type: text/xml;charset=\"UTF-8\"",
                "SOAPAction: \"http://tempuri.org/"",
                "Host: domain.com",
                "Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
                "Connection: Keep-Alive"
                );

and here's my curl options

curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_URL,            $url);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 120);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,        120);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,    true); // new
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,      10);   // new
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // new
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_POST,           true );            
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,     $xml_post_string); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_VERBOSE,        TRUE); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,     $headers);

its weird because, yesterday, I just started this code, and I receive a readable text just like, the exact error: "refNo not found" but now, I didn't understand what happen. The respone should be text and human readable only. — PHP, Jun 06 '15 at 01:12
You are explicitly _asking_ for a compressed version of the content (if available) with `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` — CBroe, Jun 06 '15 at 01:14
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8364640/how-to-properly-handle-a-gzipped-page-when-using-curl -- probably have to set an option.. — user2864740, Jun 06 '15 at 01:15
Maybe http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22145830/is-there-a-way-to-pass-compressed-into-phps-curl-setopt — user2864740, Jun 06 '15 at 01:19
Try just removing the `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` header — Grokify, Jun 06 '15 at 01:23

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '15 at 01:31

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Thank you guys for your comment, I have solve the issue now, shout out to Grokify, I just remove the Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate and it is now readable.

answered Jun 06 '15 at 01:31

PHP

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '21 at 10:42

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I had a similar problem. Adding working headers (As of my browser) solved it for me.

Current working code of mine:

$headers = array("User-Agent: ********User Agent********");
$ch = curl_init("******URL*******");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
$data= curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

answered Feb 14 '21 at 10:42

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You've changed a **lot** of headers compared to the ones in the question without justifying the individual changes. The answer from half a decade ago makes the minimal change needed to solve the problem. – Quentin Feb 14 '21 at 10:50
Dear @Quentin, I was getting unreadable output from CURL and Adding UserAgent fixed it. Thus I posted it so others reaching this post try this as well, though, you are right this is not a direct answer to the specific scenario in question. – M at Feb 14 '21 at 12:41

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