Reza_Freez
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I am using curl to send xml requests to API from Emailvision. I am having trouble lately where some requests result in "500 Internal Server Error", while others are sent without any errors.The output of verbose is pasted below, can someone please help me interpret what might be causing the error.* About to connect() to api.notificationmessaging.com port 443* Trying 81.92.116.8... * connected* Connected to api.notificationmessaging.com (81.92.116.8) port 443* successfully set certificate verify locations:* CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none* SSL connection using RC4-MD5* Server certificate:* subject: /C=FR/ST=Hauts de Seine/L=Clichy/O=Emailvision/OU=Provided by TBS INTERNET http://www.tbs-certificats.com//CN=*.notificationmessaging.com* start date: 2008-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* expire date: 2010-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* issuer: /C=ZA/ST=Western Cape/L=Cape Town/O=Thawte Consulting cc/OU=Certification Services Division/CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/[email protected]* SSL certificate verify ok.POST /NMSXML HTTP/1.1Host: api.notificationmessaging.comAccept: */*Content-Length: 2177Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedExpect: 100-continueHTTP/1.1 100 Continue % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 2177 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:15:53 GMT X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.4; JBoss-4.0.5.GA (build: CVSTag=Branch_4_0 date=200610162339)/Tomcat-5.5 Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 82 Connection: close100 2259 0 82 100 2177 969 25745 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 80629* Closing connection #0* About to connect() to api.notificationmessaging.com port 443* Trying 81.92.116.8... * connected* Connected to api.notificationmessaging.com (81.92.116.8) port 443* successfully set certificate verify locations:* CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none* SSL connection using RC4-MD5* Server certificate:* subject: /C=FR/ST=Hauts de Seine/L=Clichy/O=Emailvision/OU=Provided by TBS INTERNET http://www.tbs-certificats.com//CN=*.notificationmessaging.com* start date: 2008-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* expire date: 2010-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* issuer: /C=ZA/ST=Western Cape/L=Cape Town/O=Thawte Consulting cc/OU=Certification Services Division/CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/[email protected]* SSL certificate verify ok. POST /NMSXML HTTP/1.1Host: api.notificationmessaging.comAccept: */*Content-Length: 21942Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedExpect: 100-continue HTTP/1.1 100 Continue % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 21942 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:15:52 GMT X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.4; JBoss-4.0.5.GA (build: CVSTag=Branch_4_0 date=200610162339)/Tomcat-5.5 Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 0 Connection: close100 21942 0 0 100 21942 0 216k --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 535k* Closing connection #0* About to connect() to api.notificationmessaging.com port 443* Trying 81.92.116.8... * connected* Connected to api.notificationmessaging.com (81.92.116.8) port 443* successfully set certificate verify locations:* CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none* SSL connection using RC4-MD5* Server certificate:* subject: /C=FR/ST=Hauts de Seine/L=Clichy/O=Emailvision/OU=Provided by TBS INTERNET http://www.tbs-certificats.com//CN=*.notificationmessaging.com* start date: 2008-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* expire date: 2010-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* issuer: /C=ZA/ST=Western Cape/L=Cape Town/O=Thawte Consulting cc/OU=Certification Services Division/CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/[email protected]* SSL certificate verify ok. POST /NMSXML HTTP/1.1Host: api.notificationmessaging.comAccept: */*Content-Length: 11602Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedExpect: 100-continue HTTP/1.1 100 Continue % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 11602 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:15:52 GMT X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.4; JBoss-4.0.5.GA (build: CVSTag=Branch_4_0 date=200610162339)/Tomcat-5.5 Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 0 Connection: close100 11602 0 0 100 11602 0 118k --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 306k* Closing connection #0* About to connect() to api.notificationmessaging.com port 443* Trying 81.92.116.8... * connected* Connected to api.notificationmessaging.com (81.92.116.8) port 443* successfully set certificate verify locations:* CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none* SSL connection using RC4-MD5* Server certificate:* subject: /C=FR/ST=Hauts de Seine/L=Clichy/O=Emailvision/OU=Provided by TBS INTERNET http://www.tbs-certificats.com//CN=*.notificationmessaging.com* start date: 2008-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* expire date: 2010-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* issuer: /C=ZA/ST=Western Cape/L=Cape Town/O=Thawte Consulting cc/OU=Certification Services Division/CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/[email protected]* SSL certificate verify ok. POST /NMSXML HTTP/1.1Host: api.notificationmessaging.comAccept: */*Content-Length: 2178Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedExpect: 100-continue HTTP/1.1 100 Continue % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 2178 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:15:53 GMT X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.4; JBoss-4.0.5.GA (build: CVSTag=Branch_4_0 date=200610162339)/Tomcat-5.5 Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 82 Connection: close100 2260 0 82 100 2178 777 20644 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 45375* Closing connection #0* About to connect() to api.notificationmessaging.com port 443* Trying 81.92.116.8... * connected* Connected to api.notificationmessaging.com (81.92.116.8) port 443* successfully set certificate verify locations:* CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none* SSL connection using RC4-MD5* Server certificate:* subject: /C=FR/ST=Hauts de Seine/L=Clichy/O=Emailvision/OU=Provided by TBS INTERNET http://www.tbs-certificats.com//CN=*.notificationmessaging.com* start date: 2008-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* expire date: 2010-09-20 09:09:15 GMT* issuer: /C=ZA/ST=Western Cape/L=Cape Town/O=Thawte Consulting cc/OU=Certification Services Division/CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/[email protected]* SSL certificate verify ok. POST /NMSXML HTTP/1.1Host: api.notificationmessaging.comAccept: */*Content-Length: 2178Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedExpect: 100-continueHTTP/1.1 100 Continue % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 2178 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0And below is the curl snippet I am using to make requests.curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'https://api.notificationmessaging.com/NMSXML');curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $sXML);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 600);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, TRUE);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0);$res = curl_exec($ch);Can someone please help.Thanks UPDATE:Found that problem is with some characters like a in the xml, as pointed out by Mark. Now is there a way to remove/convert all chars not recognised in xml?