Hi, Sorry, that didn't work. The website is still returning error 400 with CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION and CURLOPT_COOKIE enabled. I did some experimentation in Firefox by blocking and deleting all cookies from the site. When I then visited the site, I was able to reach the logon page without returning error 400 so I doubt it's cookies that is the problem. I also tried changing the HTTP headers to: Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Which didn't work either. Thanks On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:48 PM, haliphax <haliphax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:17 PM, David <quick.webmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Except I also need to POST data to the server to login. After I've logged > > in, I then need to use cookies to maintain a session. > > > > Doing that via file_get_contents() just isn't possible. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:30 AM, haliphax <haliphax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David <quick.webmaster@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> > I was wondering if anyone could please help me with this cURL script > >> > since I > >> > keep getting error 400 from the web server: > >> > > >> > http://pastebin.ca/1392840 > >> > > >> > It worked until around a month ago which is when they presumably made > >> > changes to the site. Except I can't figure out what configuration > option > >> > in > >> > the cURL PHP script needs to be changed. I can visit the site > perfectly > >> > in > >> > Lynx, Firefox and IE. > >> > >> Are you just trying to get the contents of the page, or is there > >> something special you're doing? If it's just the contents you're > >> after, try file_get_contents() if allow_url_fopen is set to TRUE for > >> your PHP installation. > >> > >> http://php.net/file_get_contents > >> http://php.net/allow_url_fopen > > David, please refrain from top-posting. > > As for cURL login/session handling... I have an automated script that > connects to a phpBB bulletin board, and here are the settings that > have worked for me: > > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "{$homedir}cookiefile"); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "{$homedir}cookiefile"); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, session_name() . '=' . session_id()); > > I would think CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION and the CURLOPT_COOKIE* options > are most important for resolving your issue. > > HTH, > > > -- > // Todd >