automatically login to site.

pendal

I am trying to use the HttpRequest to log into a site and then preform a search.

I am having problems get the script to log into the site.
here is my code so far

$DSUrl = 'my.site.com';
$post_file = $DSUrl . "/HomePage";

$user = "username";
$pass = "password";

$login = new HttpRequest($DSUrl,HttpRequest::METH_POST);
	$post_data = array("username"=>$user,"password"=>$pass);
	$login->addPostFields($post_data);

try {
	$login->send();
	echo $login->getResponseBody();

}catch(HttpException $ex){
	echo $ex;
}

when I run the script all i get on the screen is the login page. Correct me if i am wrong, but shouldn't i be seeing the page i would normally see after i was logged in?

Curl is installed and enabled
allow_url_fopen is enabled.

Thanks in advance,
-P

scrupul0us

you need to call the login page specifically and im assuming my.site.com isnt the actual login page... probably login.php or similar

Bjom

depends on how the login page is set up. if it also checks whether the submit button has been pressed (assuming its name is 'submit' then $_POST['submit'] will contain a value), then user and password aren't enough...

Bjom

pendal

you need to call the login page specifically

I am .. the login url is internal so it looks like this

http://192.168.2.114/dsweb/Login

..that is what I am calling in my HttpRequest.

f it also checks whether the submit button has been pressed

I don't believe that to be the case.

Currently there is a perl script running that does the basically the same function. I am just trying to get it to work in PHP

here is that code .. well the part that handles the log in anyway.

#get login

$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url.'/dsweb/Login');
$req->authorization_basic($win_login,$win_password) if $win_login;
$res = $ua->request($req);

my $html = $res->as_string;
#print "$html";

my @forms = HTML::Form->parse($html, $url);
my $search_form;
foreach my $form (@forms) {
	if ($form->{action}=~m/Login/) {
		$search_form = $form;
		last;
	}
}
@forms = undef;

print $search_form->dump;
$search_form->value('username',$user);
$search_form->value('password',$pass);



$req = $search_form->make_request;

it looks to me like the perl script is searching for the right form to add the values to and then submitting that form.

the name of the button that submits the correct form on the login page is name="Login"

the action of that form is action="192.168.2.114/dsweb/ApplyLogin"

any ideas??

Bjom

new(GET => $url.'/dsweb/Login');

looks like it's using GET not POST, but that's a wild guess. If it is true, then you only need to change your code like so:

$login = new HttpRequest($DSUrl,HttpRequest::METH_GET);

pendal

i got it to work

i was posting to the login page and not the action of the login form.

i just didn't understand that part of the request construct i guess.

It is working but giving me an error which seems to be a problem with the headers or the cookies, but that is outside of the httpRequest which seems to be working now.

thanks for the help.