issue with curl

scrupul0us

$username = '';
$password = '';
$url = '';

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE);

$data = array("user"=>$username,"pass"=>$password,"submit"=>"Login");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);

echo curl_exec($ch);

my login credentials work fine, but instead curl following the login to the next page and displaying that, my browser tries to redirect to the page and i get an error...

help!

bogu

Why do u send an array?

phpmanual wrote:
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS: Pass a string containing the full data to post in an HTTP "POST" operation.

Change this:

$data = array("user"=>$username,"pass"=>$password,"submit"=>"Login");

to this:

$data = "user={$username}&pass={$password}&submit=>Login";

scrupul0us

still no go

scrupul0us

maybe giving an example will help:

if my base url that i define is lets say:
remotedomain.com/login.php

i pass that through my curl and what im expecting to have curl return to me is:
remotedoamin.com/home.php

instead, im authenticated and taken to:
MYDOMAIN.com/home.php

and since that page doesnt exist i get an 404 error

bogu

Do u send all the login form elements to the form action?

scrupul0us

yes...

<form action="login.php" method="POST">
<input class="input" type="text" name="user" size="30" MAXLENGTH="30">
<input class="input" type="password" name="pass" size="30" MAXLENGTH="30">
<input type="submit" class="input" value="Login">
</form>

^boiled down with no other html (theres no hidden values either)

bogu

Try sending the useragent (CURLOPT_USERAGENT) and maybe CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE

Maybe u don't send all the form`s value, or he cant set a cookie or u need to send some http header, look at the curl_setopt in php manual ...

U can read more about curl_setopt here.

scrupul0us

yea i read allover about it... i doubt its a cookies issue... its a redirect issue... why my browser is redirecting instead of curl catching it is my question... esp since i have followlocation on

scrupul0us

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