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.
