get/set cookies from fopen?

Anon

Hello!
I am trying to write kind of a drill down web page.
To get to certain information I want, I need to drill down through about 3 pages. During that time, I am given cookies, need to set form variables and the like. Thw flow is like this:

1) Go to login page. Get 2 cookies. Enter username/password and submit
2) From the next page, select a URL which encodes a variable name
3) from a list of items, select the final URL which encodes a variable name.

Now, I know how I can scan the data from a fread for the stuff I want, but how would I get cookie info that the fread wants to set?

-Scott

yelvington

I don't think you're going to be able to do it by relying on PHP's fopen() wrappers. You're probably going to have to open a socket and construct an HTTP request (potentially containing the cookie that you want to send), and read the results the hard way (potentially including the cookie that is set).

Anybody see any alternatives?

Anon

Blech fsockopen() 🙂
Well, I am able to forge up a HTTP request and can grab the cookies I need. Now the posting.

I want to post the cookies + some form data to a server, reading the results. I assume I will need to use fsockopen() again. Are there any APIs which can help me in this??
I wish you could choose a socket to use stuff like Header(), etc in, to be nice in your generation of a HTTP request...
Anyhoo, How best can I generate a POST form with cookies? I think I have it (using code from this forum) with:

$header="POST /cgi-bin/form.cgi HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header.="Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header.=$Cookie["TOKENX"]."\r\n";
$header.=$Cookie["IDY"]."\r\n";
$header.="Referer: http://x.foobar.com/index.html\r\n";
$header.="Link: http://x.foobar.com/index.html\r\n";
$header.="Content-length: ".strlen($request)."\r\n";
$header.="Connection: close\r\n\r\n";

Where $Cookie[] contains the cookie strings snagged from a previous http request and the POST data ($request) given after the $header is pushed.
I think, though, the server CGI looks for some normal HTML headers and complains. Does the above look right? Is there a list of core 1.0/1.1 headers?

-Scott