Re: cURL - Error 400

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:20 PM, haliphax <haliphax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:41 PM, David <quick.webmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> PLEASE.
> STOP.
> TOP.
> POSTING.
>
> Did you try CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION? If your page uses any sort of
> redirect, cURL will probably fail without this option.
>
>
> --
> // Todd


Yes, I've already tried CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION. I believe it was included it
in the code I initially uploaded to pastebin.ca.

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