How to reset CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST

Question

I’m using a REST API which, among other things, uses the DELETE method like this:

DELETE /resources/whatever/items/123

To acce

Answer 1

This is actually a bug in PHP, since the original documentation states the following:

Restore to the internal default by setting this to NULL.

Unfortunately, as you can see from the source code, the option value gets cast to a string before it's passed to the underlying library.

Solution

I've written a pull request that addresses the issue and allows for NULL to be passed for the CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST option value.

The above patch will take some time to get merged into the project, so until then you would have to explicitly set the method yourself once you start using this option.

Update

The fix has been applied to 5.5.11 and 5.6.0 (beta1).