Curl and Cookies

[lajkonik86]

Heeyz

I'm trying to get the latestfiles of
http://latest.files.filefront.com/

Problem is they use cookies to set which type of files display.
So i would need to connect to the site and send the cookie and write the html to a variable.
I have been trying a lot to do this but i cant seem to succeed or find sufficient information about it.

Regards,
Thierry Schellenbach

[Installer]

There are a couple of examples that use cookies here.

[lajkonik86]

looks promising
thx

the anoying thing is that it only sends the cookies after you select which options you want.
Could i take the cookies of my browser end send it trough curl this way?

[Installer]

I guess you could do it that way, or you could just receive the page with curl, and send the cookies back again with curl (with CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR and CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE). See the users' notes here.

[AstroTeg]

Curl uses Netscape's cookie file format. I haven't tried it, but in theory, you could use Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, or a Gecko based browser and copy the entire cookie file over to where you have your PHP setup. Then tell Curl to use that file as its cookie jar/file.

If that doesn't work, then do what Installer said.

[Installer]

Also, I just remembered that there's an example at the page I linked to earlier that demonstrates how to do exactly this.

[lajkonik86]

thanks🙂