Greg Donald wrote:
On 7/4/07, Alan Milnes <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have spent the afternoon trawling the web for how to retrieve a
Yahoo Groups Web Page using PHP. The best option seems to be curl,
which is installed on my host. I need to understand how to set the
cookies so that Yahoo accepts my response.
The code I have is:-
$url="http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/gameplan/message/17162";;
$c = curl_init ($url);
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); // For testing
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_COOKIE, "PU='t=2'");
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_COOKIE, "B='fjdqm0h38nja8&b=3&s=en'");
curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_COOKIE,
"G='v=7&data=aV_mWZSWJqXQjMVAffABJZF90G5YVfEqEKS_8sCOGC3UJKe0r0CgoZ9Ys5lC44k1cNbU1Es8YvlWBV8HeBernGvtIA-WSq4kLkSKiwcQMo-uYLWwGFoQogK4oDv-rdb1JieLv7LLxUJvjCmZu8wAfBp8WO9dBI4gkypKEQK88Tcgb47bGiHVRZssV0LYodF64CAmb78Cu3I51FOXw1iZbUE76-qwQo2nz_qm-z21RwG8Tnm9yMed8ge588576Tqtxf7ebc3v06bvVYknMxT3AuuLpzSXb3MbyBxWXousng1nkcdooFGrFlVfSwcbl2scqfr8hBOoJLeoPdY6_aLrEtZghtVg1tvwclO3fSvXVa7TBhhHHzJ1JrD7_q-8mN140EjYon9Z4ump3lh6NHerJHlKE63J0t-syUMDNo3muAzYFQulYjQ&n=8'");
curl_exec ($c);
The page outputs:-
"Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else?"
I'm guessing that perhaps the cookies aren't being set properly.
Any pointers / articles / sites? Can I use a cookies.txt file from a
valid visit to the site to set this up?
Use curl_setopt() to let curl save the cookies.
Specifically you need these two options:
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
Also, you might want to think about passing it a different User-Agent then the default curl agent
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, './cookie.txt'); // Make sure location is writable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, './cookie.txt'); // Make sure location is writable
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