On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:41 AM, David <quick.webmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >> > > 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 > Does the site require a valid HTTP_REFERER? I haven't seen CURLOPT_REFERER in any of your examples. (If I missed it somewhere, just ignore the noise.) Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
