Problem using CURL

[black0xio]

Hiya all,

I'm trying to use cURL to submit a form on a site (http://ipower.com) and then save the cookie given by the site.
The exact url being: https://secure.ipower.com/secure/login.bml?err=

Can anyone guide me how can i do that ?

black0xio Reviewed by black0xio on 1st Aug 2010. Problem using CURL Hiya all, I'm trying to use cURL to submit a form on a site (http://ipower.com) and then save the cookie given by the site. The exact url being: https://secure.ipower.com/secure/login.bml?err= Can anyone guide me how can i do that ? Rating: 5

[desiboy]

use this to save cookies to a local file.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $path_to_save_cookie); 

[t3od0r]

try this:

function get_web_page( $url )
{
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => true, // don't return headers
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "spider", // who am i
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 60, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 5, // stop after 10 redirects
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => dirname(__FILE__) . "/cookies.txt",
);

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
$err = curl_errno( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$header['errno'] = $err;
$header['errmsg'] = $errmsg;
$header['content'] = $content;

return $header;
}

[black0xio]

@desiboy: Already tried that but no success.

[black0xio]

guys whenever i try submitting the form on ipower.com the curl fails to connect , i mean it doesnt connects to ipower.com but instead connects to my localhost.

Here are the headers i get :

http://127.0.0.1/curl2.php

GET /curl2.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:10:25 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.12 OpenSSL/0.9.8k mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.0
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.0
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=98
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
----------------------------------------------------------
http://127.0.0.1/favicon.ico

GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:10:28 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.12 OpenSSL/0.9.8k mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.0
Vary: accept-language,accept-charset
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=97
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Language: en

[desiboy]

<?
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://secure.ipower.com/secure/login.bml?err=");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
$things = array(
 'credential_0' => 'desi',
 'credential_1' => 'mypass'
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $things);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies.txt');

$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

I was able to store the cookies to a text file...make sure cookies.txt is writable..

[black0xio]

Thank you all at last i got it working.
Thanks to t3odor for his function. the full code is as follows in case any1 needs it
Had to edit some parts though but you got my mind working

<?php
function get_web_page( $url )
{
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => true, // don't return headers
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "spider", // who am i
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 60, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 5, // stop after 10 redirects
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => dirname(__FILE__) . "\cookie1.txt",
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "MY POST DATA HERE FOR LOGIN :)"
);

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
$err = curl_errno( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$header['errno'] = $err;
$header['errmsg'] = $errmsg;
$header['content'] = $content;

return $header;
}  //end of fn





function mailbox( $url )
{
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => true, // don't return headers
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "spider", // who am i
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 60, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 5, // stop after 10 redirects
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => dirname(__FILE__) . "\cookie1.txt",
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "POST DATA FOR CREATING NEW MAIL BOX HERE"
);

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
$err = curl_errno( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$header['errno'] = $err;
$header['errmsg'] = $errmsg;
$header['content'] = $content;

return $header;
}  //end of fn

get_web_page("https://secure.ipower.com/secureLogin");
mailbox("http://members.ipower.com/webControl/emailpack/mailcentral.bml");
?>

Thanks again

[black0xio]

@desiboy: I saw your code a bit late otherwise it would have saved me some time

[hip_hop_x]

When using cookies/sessions make sure the file has write acces

[Yawn92]

When using cookies/sessions make sure the file has write acces

Wasn't the problem because he was trying to connect via https?