Here is an example of a CURL request using PHP.

example-curl-request.php

<?php
$request = "request=string of request";

// Send using curl
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // URL to post
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 ); // return into a variable
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header ); // headers from above
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 8080);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$request);

$result = curl_exec( $ch ); // runs the post

//perform tasks on $result
curl_close($ch);
?>