My site uses the Xenforo API to automatically create new threads from a PHP script using the Curl library and the POST api/threads/ endpoint. This has worked fine for the past two years, and then suddenly earlier this week it stopped working. My code had not changed, nor had my XF install (although I did upgrade to the latest version to see if that resolved the problem, which it did not).
What appears to be happening is that the server is returning an HTTP 406 status (Not acceptable) and the thread is not created.
When I try to manually submit the request using requestly, it appears to work just fine, so it seems to be something unique to the PHP/Curl environment, yet I can't see what could be causing any differences in this relatively simple request.
Here is a copy of my code:
Any ideas on what could be causing this and how to resolve?
Here is the output of the getinfo call:
As I said, this has been working perfectly for over a year now and suddenly stopped working this past week.
What appears to be happening is that the server is returning an HTTP 406 status (Not acceptable) and the thread is not created.
When I try to manually submit the request using requestly, it appears to work just fine, so it seems to be something unique to the PHP/Curl environment, yet I can't see what could be causing any differences in this relatively simple request.
Here is a copy of my code:
PHP:
function makeThread ($fid, $subject, $text) {
// Send a POST request to the API as follows:
// <URL_PREFIX>/threads/
// with the following JSON elements:
// node_id = ID of the forum to create the thread in (fid)
// title = Title of the thread (subject)
// message = Body of the first post in the thread (text)
// Should return:
// success = true
// thread = Thread data structure
$url = $this->xf_api_prefix . "threads/";
$curl = curl_init($url);
if ($curl === false) {
error_log ('CURL init failure');
return false;
}
$curl_opts = array (
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HEADER => true,
);
curl_setopt_array($curl, $curl_opts);
$headers = array(
"Accept: application/json",
"XF-Api-Key: " . $this->xf_api_key,
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$data = "node_id=" . $fid .
"&title=" . urlencode($subject) .
"&message=" . urlencode($text);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data) or die ("curl_setopt fail POSTFIELDS");
$json = curl_exec($curl);
if ($json === false) {
error_log ("CURL exec failure");
error_log (curl_error($curl));
error_log (var_export(curl_getinfo($curl),true));
return false;
}
curl_close($curl);
$resp = json_decode ($json, true);
if ($resp['success'] != true) {
return false;
} else
return($resp['thread']['view_url']);
} // makeThreadAny ideas on what could be causing this and how to resolve?
Here is the output of the getinfo call:
As I said, this has been working perfectly for over a year now and suddenly stopped working this past week.
