CURL communication with Facebook's graph not working - facebook

Question

everyone.
I have the following issue:
I'm using curl to get some info from facebook's graph (and this used to work until just a few days ago), but now I just get an empty answer.
The request is quite simple:
https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=XXX&access_token=YYY
The ids parameter is just a list of ids for elements in the graph (in this case, application requests). When I copy/paste the url on a browser, it works, but when using curl it gets stuck without an answer.
The full code for the curl call is:
require 'php/facebook.php';
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => 'XXX',
'secret' => 'YYY',
));
$url = "https://graph.facebook.com?ids=".$_POST['data']."&access_token=".$_POST['access_token'];
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$results = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $results;
Could anyone shed some light on this?
Cheers!

Answer 1

try {} graph.facebook.com/ with trailing slash
$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=".$_POST['data']."&access_token=".$_POST['access_token'];
also i am unsure where you are trying to retrieve the post from so you could try request method instead.
$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=".$_REQUEST['data']."&access_token=".$_REQUEST['access_token'];
example ajax call to php:
// get albums
function showAlbums(pageid,limit,offset){
thealbums = "albums";
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
{
document.getElementById("albums").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
}
};
xmlhttp.open("GET","plugins.albums.php?pageid="+pageid+"&limit="+limit+"&offset="+offset+"",true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
Try for cURL:
function GetCH(){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://graph.facebook.com?ids=".$_POST['data']."&access_token=".$_POST['access_token']");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS,20000);
if(substr($url,0,8)=='https://'){
// The following ensures SSL always works. A little detail:
// SSL does two things at once:
// 1. it encrypts communication
// 2. it ensures the target party is who it claims to be.
// In short, if the following code is allowed, CURL won't check if the
// certificate is known and valid, however, it still encrypts communication.
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH,CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,false);
}
$sendCH = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $sendCH;
};
$ThisId = GetCH();
echo $ThisId;