Ebay login script using CURL

dila125

Hi,

I've tried to use an example curl script to login to ebay. The script can be found at:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/?ex=ebay_login.php

I've changed the userid, password and cookie variables to the required values, however I always get the same error from ebay, a page saying "The browser you are using is rejecting cookies"

The cookie file on my webserver gets updated correcly each time I run the script, but I always get the same ebay error, which would suggest that the cookie is not being passed back to ebay?

Has anyone else tried to use this script recently? I'm wondering if eBay have changed the login procedure slighly?

Cheers for any help or advice

Dila

robert_w_ark

maybe a certain cookie that ebay is calling doesnt exist because your not naming the cookie right.. so try this

1: log into ebay
2: type this in browser
"javascript:alert(document.cookie)"
3: Get name of cookie.

dila125

Thanks for your reply. I tried this, and got the cookie data, but where do I get the cookie name?

AstroTeg

Without looking at the code, my guess would be you don't have cookies enabled in your Curl code (see [man]curl_setopt[/man] and look for CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR and/or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE). If neither of those are in your code, you'll want to add both (see php.net for the details and sample code in the comments).

If your code already has this, find out which file its pointing to. My bet would be either the file doesn't exist, or the file exists and its 0 bytes, or it exists and PHP can't read it due to file access/rights issues. If you're on *nix, try chmod 777 [cookie file].

dila125

You can see the exact code I am using at:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/?ex=ebay_login.php

The cookie file gets changed each time I access the page. The data in the cookie file is:

Netscape HTTP Cookie File

http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.

.ebay.com TRUE / FALSE 1135962149 nonsession AQAAAAQAAADLAAAACgAAAKQ01EGsO9RBMDHKAAAAKQAAAKQ01EEkNjpLMDIxNzNlNTg2MGEwODQ2MGIzOTYxMDZlZTAwMDUyYWFmqgAAAAoAAAClNNRBJWi1QzAwpAAAAD0AAAClNNRBJWi1QzFAMTgwMDIzODU5NzsgJDIkTW96aWxsYS8kU054RG5mblRvYWlST1AuZ0tBMmpjMADNzc3Nh
.ebay.com TRUE / FALSE 1135962148 dp1 bu1p/QEBfX0BAX19AQA**43b56824^
.ebay.com TRUE / FALSE 809913600 sru X
.ebay.com TRUE / FALSE 1135962149 ns1 AQAAAAEAAAClAAAAPQAAAKU01EElaLVDMTE3ODg3MjYzNS8wOyAkMiRNb3ppbGxhLyRpYW5HOEYxZzRkZS5EZnNmUHRrWG0xAM3Nzc0*h

The problem seems to be with the cookie getting passed back to eBay.

If any wants to try the code and report back their results, I would be very grateful.