cURL/MySpace POST Issue

[dcs973]

Hi all! I'm at my wits end with a PHP script I'm using to retrieve friend lists from MySpace. I've been using cURL to post the _doPostBack data to MySpace and all was working flawlessly up until a few weeks ago. It seems that the simple cURL code I was using is no longer working, and I believe this has something to do with MySpace setting up msplinks redirection. So the problem I'm having now is when I use the following function, I get a 302😮bject Moved HTTP response:

$url = "http://friends.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends&friendID=".$_POST['fid'];

$vars = "__EVENTTARGET=ctl00%24cpMain%24FriendsView_skin%24pagerTop&__EVENTARGUMENT=".$q."&__LASTFOCUS=&__VIEWSTATE=".$vsval."&___msPagerState=".$mspagerstate."&ctl00%24cpMain%24FriendsView_skin%24ddlHidden=0&ctl00%24cpMain%24FriendsView_skin%24selectedAlpha=&ctl00%24cpMain%24FriendsView_skin%24editMode=false";

function next_friendlist_post($url, $vars) {
		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $vars);
		$response = curl_exec ($ch);
		curl_close ($ch);

	$response = htmlspecialchars($response);

	return $response;
}

Now, if I add CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, I get a .NET Error Page ("Sorry, a technial error has occured... forwarded to MySpace technical group... etc..."):

function next_friendlist_post($url, $vars) {
		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
		curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $vars);
		$response = curl_exec ($ch);
		curl_close ($ch);

	$response = htmlspecialchars($response);

	return $response;
}

I'm hoping someone out there has been through this before and can possibly help me out. I'm running PHP 4.4.8 on Windows. Thanks in advance!

[The-Master]

It might be because they have implemented sessions when viewing pages. I can't be sure but when I view a friends page I get this:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=whatever&MyToken=9f54d5ec-f2a7-41e5-b668-ab36e6904953

the MyToken variable would probably be the session key.

Try accessing peoples pages by their page url. It doesn't seem to need a session id:

http://www.myspace.com/tom

[dcs973]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I cannot access the friendlist view without a friend ID number... that will only work to access the main profile page, unfortunately. I can also access the friendlist view without a token, so I don't think that is the cause. It was working before, even when they had the tokens in place.

[The-Master]

Maybe they have changed the way the post variables work. Try checking. You could try getting the headers of the page you are trying to view and see if there are any redirects.

Also myspace like you having a user agent to sign in. Maybe they want you to have a user agent in this case. It wont do any harm to add one.