PHP Curl Common errors: SSL error, BOOL (false) _php tips

Symptom (s): Php Curl Call HTTPS error
Troubleshooting methods: Try using the curl call at the command line.
Reason: The server room cannot authenticate the SSL certificate.
Workaround: Skip SSL certificate checking.
curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_ssl_verifypeer, false);

Symptom (s): the PHP Curl call Curl_exec returns BOOL (false), and the command line curl calls normally.
Troubleshooting methods:
Var_dump (Curl_error ($ch));
Return:
String (Empty reply from server)
Further investigation:
curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_header, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_returntransfer, false);
return:
http/1.1 Continue
Connection:close
Reason: Php Curl received HTTP 100 is over, should continue to receive HTTP 200
Solution:
curl_setopt ($ch, Curlopt_httpheader, Array (' Expect: '));

PHP and curl:disabling 100-continue header
Published June 15th, 2006
I ' ve been using CURL (through PHP) to build a sort of proxy for a in project I ' m working on. I need to parse the returned headers (to recover the HTTP status), so had included a very simple script. The It had worked fine in the past, but for some reason to this case. A closer look at what is being returned revealed this for some reason, Apache is prepending the ' normal ' headers with an Extra response Header:

http/1.1 Continue

http/1.1 OK Date:fri, June 2006 15:23:42 GMT
Server:apache
... A bit of Googling revealed that this is to does with a header that CURL sends by default:

Expect:100-continue

... which in turns tells Apache to send the extra header. I poked around a fair bit but couldn ' t quite find a workable solution short of manually removing the header in PHP, which Seemed a bit clumsy. Finally, on a hunch I tried this:

curl_setopt ($curl _handle, Curlopt_httpheader, Array (' Expect: '));

... which basically overrides the original ' Expect: ' Header with an empty one.

Hope this helps someone.