$ch = curl_init('http://www.yourapi.com/'); curl_setopt_array($ch, array( CURLOPT_HEADER => false, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_POST => true, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE => 1, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION => 'curl_read' )); curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); function curl_read($ch, $fp, $len) { var_dump($fp); exit; }