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My url is:
http://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/v1/batch?key=dNBvDLtTx85L3akdg8vBoHQXrWpDJSEI&location=HEBRON,KY,US&location=CINCINNATI,KY,US&location=CINCINNATI,KY,US&location=BEDFORD PARK,IL,US&location=BEDFORD PARK,IL,US&location=HODGKINS,IL,US&location=HODGKINS,IL,US&location=HODGKINS,IL,US&location=BALDWIN PARK,CA,US&location=BALDWIN PARK,CA,US&location=BALDWIN PARK,CA,US&location=,,US
It's long but it should be compliant with https://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/
The mystery unfolds when I run the following php code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $urlForGeocode);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, TRUE);
$return = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo( $return);
$output = shell_exec('curl ' . $urlForGeocode);
echo( $output);
The variable $urlEncode holds the value of the url above. The first output is:
<html><body><b>Http/1.1 Bad Request</b></body> </html>
The output of the second request is:
{
"info": {
"statuscode": 400,
"copyright": {
"text": "\u00A9 2016 MapQuest, Inc.",
"imageUrl": "http://api.mqcdn.com/res/mqlogo.gif",
"imageAltText": "\u00A9 2016 MapQuest, Inc."
},
"messages": ["no 'json' parameter found"]
},
"options": {
"maxResults": -1,
"thumbMaps": true,
"ignoreLatLngInput": false
},
"results": [{
"providedLocation": {},
"locations": []
}]
}
Those two different cURL requests return basically the same thing. When I run the cURL from my terminal on my local machine, a 400 is returned as well.
If I put the URL in my browser though, I'm not disappointed, and it returns the data I'm looking for with a 200 status code.
What is different between a browser get request and the cURL?
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Like @Matt the ninja and @chiliNut suggested, I needed to look at the difference between the two requests.
The only difference was the spaces. I tried running the urlencode() php function as well as the rawurlencode() php function, and neither affected the result.
This is what I am using now instead of url encoding:
$urlForGeocodeURLEncoded = str_replace(' ', '%20', $urlForGeocode);
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