PHP & Retrieving set cookies (by other sites) and resetting them

WebsiteUnlocker

OK heres what I want to do. I want to run a script on http://www.domain.com that will basically read the contents of a file on http://www.domain2.com (you need to be logged in to access this file though) so basically I want this php script to grab the cookie set by domain2.com that is the cookies that basically makes the user logged in and reset it so when the php script reads the file it reads the file as a logged in user and not as a browser with absolutely no cookies set.

Is this possible.

I want to use php.

I have been told that this would be possible with wget (but I know nothing about wget) and I have also been told it may be possible with curl.

toplay

Why do you want this? This sounds like you're hacking.

Cookies are sent by the browser to the server of the domain that created the cookie in the first place. There is no way I know to read an existing cookie that domain2.com created from domain.com.

Weedpacket

So you've been told that it would be possible with wget, and you've been told it would be possible with cURL.

I would have thought the next step would have been to study up on those two things and see if they can do what you want and how.

WebsiteUnlocker

Yeah I was kinda lookin for help Weedpacket, if you dont got none no need to reply.

I have looked into wget and it was fairly confusing and I'd probably never need it again so I was hopin someone would already have a block of coding for something like this. And I already know some basic curl, and have never seen anything regarding the retrieval and setting of cookies.

What I am trying to do is create a script that will grab the cookie that basically makes the user logged into http://boards.ign.com and set it so when I grab a page's source it will be the source as a logged in user and not like a browser with no cookies set.

I am not trying to hack with this, I am writing a script for the users that will basically server as an easy control panel that will tell them how many PM's they have, etc...

Is it possible?

Weedpacket

It's a good thing you explained all that; if you hadn't there was an excellent chance that someone would just tell it all to you again and you would have spent some hours waiting for a reply only to be told something you already know - a waste of your time. (Still, I was only trying to help.)

If you're after a "block of coding" then you might want to look at PHP's [man]cURL[/man] manual page at the user notes. There's one there with the comment

/*
  Here is a script that is usefull to :
  - login to a POST form,
  - store a session cookie,
  - download a file once logged in.
*/

And wget is confusing? It's about as simple as a web client can get and still be useful!

WebsiteUnlocker

Thank you, that user comment was actually very helpful weedpacket thank you.