Someone has GOT to know the answer

[kayb91]

I've looked everywhere for the answer to this. I've seen lots of people ask, but nobody seems to have the solution and I desperately need to find it.

How do you use cURL to post to a site that uses cookies? I need to be able to have my users accept them and send them back.

Even if you don't know the answer, any suggestions might help.

Thank You. 😕

[superwormy]

You should take a look at the cURL documentation and search for 'cookies':
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

The third link in a Google search for ' cURL cookies ' ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=curl+cookies )

Yeilds this:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/1502.htm

The fourth:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/PHP/Q_20712796.html

[kayb91]

This is wonderful! Thank You super! I'm on my way there now.

Think I need some Coffee first :o

[kayb91]

What in the world am I doing wrong? I practically copied all of the code from this page http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/PHP/Q_20712796.html and made the necessary changes (eg. full path, referer, etc..) I even added http headers:

$header[] = "Accept: text/vnd.wap.wml,.";

No Luck! Still getting an error. Your browser must accept cookies. :mad:

I have not much experience with http or headers, etc and have only been doing PHP for a few months now. I Love PHP but I have no books on any of the rest of it. This is my weakest area and I am crying out for some help.

In this command:
// Now set up the path and filename that wil bee the cookie
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "/home/sites/dev/cookies/cookie.txt");
Are cookies supposed to appear in this folder somewhere? Becuase they're not. If this sounds like a stupid question I apologize. I don't know cookies and I can HONESTLY say I don't like them either.

I don't know why anyone uses them 😕

Any further direction would be greatly appreciated as my monitor is in serious danger right now.

Thanks 🙁