php script spoofing a browser and cookies?

[dr4296]

Greetings All!

I've got a php script that uses fsockopen to pull in web pages from a particular site.

However, that site has suddenly started returning my fsockopen HTTP requests with what is apparently an HTTP request to set a cookie.

How should I adjust my script to handle this, if I want to get past this cookie-setting stuff and get to the web pages I used to be able to get to?

Any thoughts? Can't seem to find anything about this a la Google.

Thanks!

-= Dave =-

[AstroTeg]

I'd HIGHLY recommend using curl for this. Curl, with a flip of a switch, can handle saving and sending cookies without much effort on your part.

Otherwise, I think you can still do it using fsockopen(), but you'd have to work code in there to grab the headers which is where the cookies are at, save the cookies, and then manage sending the headers back with the cookies. Probably not too difficult, but curl makes it a lot easier.