Help with Redirection information

Mykasoda

Ok, if you've seen my last thread, you know I was having serious problems with getting information from a password protected page in a php program (even though I know the password)

Well, after some tinkering with the site, I was able to get it to the point where I could put my password in the URL (since it uses GET, so i could just say &password=XXX). I thought I had figured it out and was sooooo happy.

The thing is, the page checks the password, logs the user in and then redirects to the actual page which checks for a cookie. All I am getting when I fopen the page (even with password inputted) is the orginal page asking for a password. Is there anyway I can get at the page that I'm being redirected too?

Much thanks in advance, again.

Rohan_Hill

So it's actually redirecting back to the url of the first page?

Mykasoda

Yes, this is how it works as far as I can tell

1) I goto "View Entries" page
2) It detects that I'm coming from PHP program, and hence no cookies to be found
3) Brings me to login page, but I have specificfied that I want to pass ?password=xxx so that it doesn't stop me here
4) It writes a cookie in my browser cache
5) It redirects to the page I was orginally coming from
6) FOPEN reads this page
7)Because I'm still in a PHP program it can't find the cookie, and sends me back to the login page.

🙁

Rohan_Hill

What do you mean by "It detects that I'm coming from PHP program"?

And also, when you say fopen reads this page, what page does it read and what does it do with the data it reads?