Using cURL to start remote site session

bricktop

Hi All,

The title may not make very clear what I am trying to achieve, so I'll try and explain it better now.

I have 2 sites. I want to call the login service on site 2 from site 1 using cURL; the URI for site 2 looks like this (and is called via cURL on site 1):

http://secondsitedomain.com/remote?username=admin&password=admin

This, I was hoping, would log the user into site 2 from site 1 - then show site 2 in an iFrame inside of site 1.

However, it doesn't appear to create the logged in session on site 2 when I call that URI via cURL.

So, my question is, does a call like the URI above not create the session locally when called via cURL? Of course it works as expected if the URI is put directly into the browser address bar! Just not when called via cURL.

Any pointers muchly appreciated,
Brick...

sneakyimp

So you visit site 1 in your browser. Site 1 initiates a cURL connection to Site 2. In order for site 2 to track the session, it's going to try and set a cookie. This cookie will not be set in your browser, it's going to be set on site 1. You need to check all the cURL settings...there's one or two that relate to a cookie file. You'll need to set these to some text file on your server. Apache (or whatever web server you are running) is going to need privileges to write data to this text file. That way, when site 1 visits site 2 and site 2 says "please store this cookie," then site 1 will store the cookie in the text file.

Kudose

It depends on how the site tracks you. It sounds like it uses cookies because sessions are stored on the server and handled pretty much automaticaly. You'd need to look at the CURLOPT_COOKIE* options of [man]curl_setopt[/man].

bricktop

Thanks for your replies.

I have taken the following approachas outlined in this thread.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,224931.0.html

Thanks again,
Brick...