How to Check if a .NET Passport is valid

[icey37]

How to Check if a .NET Passport is valid before accepting the user.

Hi,

I am wondering how to make a simple PHP Script so when someone enters their email address (.NET Passport) and password on my own webpage it verifies it with www.hotmail.com i[/i] to check if the account and password is real. If the address is real it passes them to "valid page" and if it isnt it passes them to an "invalid page"

I know that it's possible, because eBay etc used to let their clients used their .NET Passport (email address) to login.

It might be possible to use a POST/GET-REQUEST to www.hotmail.com (http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2) and check for the words “Invalid Password” and return the “Invalid Password Page”, and if the password and email address is correct then return the "Valid Password Page"?

I just started PHP not very long ago so my PHP skills are not the best so please help. 🙂

I’ve also desperately posted this in another forum but haven’t yet had an answer... please help me if you can

Thanks in advance,
Peter 🙂

[TheDefender]

You may need to look into the [man]curl[/man] functions to post the variables to Hotmail, and then check the returned contents. If the returned contents to validate. If your returned contents reflect a successful login, then you can proceed to your valid page. Depending on how you pull your returned content and redirect, you may need to look in the manual at output buffering too. I am only spit-balling and have never tried this myself.