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I am new to PHP and trying to call a REST Service. I could do that using either Curl or Guzzle Client in PHP. Later I am calling this from Mozilla and Chrome Browser.
The problem is Guzzle and Curl are not forwarding the actual User-Agent header as Request Header to the backend services.
The default Guzzle User-Agent header is Guzzle/ver curl/ver PHP/ver
I know we can add custom/hardcoded headers in both Curl and Guzzle. But I dont want to hardcode.
<?php
require './vendor/autoload.php';
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('GET', 'http://sample.com');
$data = json_decode($res->getBody(), true);
//echo $res->getBody()
?>
<html>
<body>
<p>Body is <?php echo $res->getBody() ?> </p>
</body>
</html>
When I call the PHP service from either Chrome/Mozilla/Mobile/Safari, I want the respective user-agent headers to be sent as request headers to backend services.
If there a way to do this in any way?
629
PHP has a build-in array which stores data from request -$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].
You can then set the user-agent guzzle uses with the headers option.
$client->request('GET', '/get', [
'headers' => [
'User-Agent' => $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],
]
]);
For GuzzleHttp\Client:
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client([
'headers' => [
'User-Agent' => $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],
]
]);
$res = $client->request('GET', 'http://sample.com');
or
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('GET', 'http://sample.com', [
'headers' => [
'User-Agent' => $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],
]
]);
For php cUrl:
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => 'http://sample.com',
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
Hope this helps for someone
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answered Oct 28 '25 18:10
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